Saturday, December 25, 2010
Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work:
.# 20. "That’s weird…"
# 19. "It’s never done that before."
# 18. "It worked yesterday."
# 17. "How is that possible?"
# 16. "It must be a hardware problem."
# 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
# 14. "There is something funky in your data."
# 13. "I haven’t touched that module in weeks!"
# 12. "You must have the wrong version."
# 11. "It’s just some unlucky coincidence."
# 10. "I can’t test everything!"
# 9. "THIS can’t be the source of THAT."
# 8. "It works, but it hasn’t been tested."
# 7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
# 6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
# 5. "Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
# 4. "You can’t use that version on your system."
# 3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
# 2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
# 1. "I thought I fixed that."
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