Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/07/2014 03:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/7/2014 3:52 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> But then again, MANY people seem to be repelled by any mention of
>> logic, whereas
>> I've aways been attracted to it, so maybe that's just my own bias.
>
> Amusingly, Mr. Spock was the most illogical member of the crew.
>

There was one episode in particular that really bugged me with that. 
Left me thinking "Uhh, I'm not sure the writer actually understood logic 
very well":

Spock and a few crew members were stranded in a shuttle with seemingly 
no chance for rescue except for a one-in-a-million longshot. Spock 
objected to actually doing the longshot because he'd inexplicably 
decided that its chances were really zero (even though logic would 
*really* dictate the chances were merely very small - which was 
obviously an improvement, albeit minor, over the "do nothing and 
guarantee lack of rescue" approach Spock was bizarrely in favor of).

Oddly, the episode was clearly *trying* to tell people "logic isn't 
always right, use your gut"...which was interesting because, uhh, the 
author's logic wasn't right ;)

Left me with a very big "Wait...WTF?!?" That episode's been bugging me 
ever since!