<div>This is a bug: <a href="http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/hemiptera/stinkbug/brown_stink_bug_adult.jpg">http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/hemiptera/stinkbug/brown_stink_bug_adult.jpg</a><br></div><div>Atleast for people who gets outside. - or well.. thats what I'm told :)</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 October 2010 15:51, Iain Buclaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ibuclaw@ubuntu.com">ibuclaw@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
== Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a@a.a)'s article<br>
<div><div class="h5">> "Lutger" <<a href="mailto:lutger.blijdestijn@gmail.com">lutger.blijdestijn@gmail.com</a>> wrote in message<br>
> news:i92j0v$cov$1@digitalmars.com...<br>
> ><br>
> > Note that bugs may actually be wanted behavior. One such case is uniform<br>
> > function call syntax on arrays, which started life as a compiler bug.<br>
> > Afterwards, the spec was changed and thus the bug was solved.<br>
> ><br>
> Wanted behavior that you didn't know you wanted :) Funny how bugs will<br>
> occasionally inspire features.<br>
> Legend has it that combos in fighting games started out as a bug in the<br>
> original Street Fighter 2 (it would let you perform a new move while you<br>
> were already in the middle of certain other moves.) The "coin boxes with<br>
> multiple coins" in the original Super Mario Bros were added because an early<br>
> bug did that and it turned out to be fun. Happened to me once to: a<br>
> game-like demo I made for a hobbyist embedded system (Hydra) has a faked 3D<br>
> effect which I only thought to put in because an early bug in my rendering<br>
> code resulted in a similar (but less polished) 3D-like effect.<br>
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</div></div>In case somebody hasn't already realised the distinction.<br>
<a href="http://faux-rebonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bug_vs_feature.gif" target="_blank">http://faux-rebonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bug_vs_feature.gif</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>// Yours sincerely<br>// Emil 'Skeen' Madsen<br>