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Re:B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know by pkaye on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @08:29PM (#28228959)
I still remember my B-tree implementation in college. The professor wanted us to run it against his data. I quickly commented up my debug prints which introduced a bug with an "if" statement and failed for some of his test cases but I got most of the credit. Later I found the cause of the bug and got pissed off for such a silly mistake.
Re:B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know by macintux on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @08:30PM (#28228968)
Discovering that your debugging code introduced a new bug is intensely frustrating. It's not nearly as rare an occasion for me as I would prefer.