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Re:Ron Graham has died by jacquesm on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:37AM (#23768046)
Every bug ever was a computer program that did exactly what the programmer told the computer to do but not what was intended. I'd like to meet the guy or girl that never coded up something with a bug, even the greats mess up.

Donald Knuth famously wrote: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", see also: the doctrine of testing.

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Re:Ron Graham has died by RWSen on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:05AM (#23768474)
> Every bug ever was a computer program that did exactly what the programmer told the computer to do [...]

Ironically, the first ever computer bug does not fit your claim [0].

[0]: https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/9/

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Re:Ron Graham has died by jacquesm on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:10AM (#23768496)
I knew someone would mention that.
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