[nomenclature] What is a bug?

[Emil Madsen]

This is a bug:
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/hemiptera/stinkbug/brown_stink_bug_adult.jpg
Atleast for people who gets outside. - or well.. thats what I'm told :)

On 13 October 2010 15:51, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> == Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a at a.a)'s article
> > "Lutger" <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:i92j0v$cov$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > >
> > > Note that bugs may actually be wanted behavior. One such case is
> uniform
> > > function call syntax on arrays, which started life as a compiler bug.
> > > Afterwards, the spec was changed and thus the bug was solved.
> > >
> > Wanted behavior that you didn't know you wanted :) Funny how bugs will
> > occasionally inspire features.
> > Legend has it that combos in fighting games started out as a bug in the
> > original Street Fighter 2 (it would let you perform a new move while you
> > were already in the middle of certain other moves.) The "coin boxes with
> > multiple coins" in the original Super Mario Bros were added because an
> early
> > bug did that and it turned out to be fun. Happened to me once to: a
> > game-like demo I made for a hobbyist embedded system (Hydra) has a faked
> 3D
> > effect which I only thought to put in because an early bug in my
> rendering
> > code resulted in a similar (but less polished) 3D-like effect.
>
> In case somebody hasn't already realised the distinction.
> http://faux-rebonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bug_vs_feature.gif
>
>
>


-- 
// Yours sincerely
// Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
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