Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: please coin a term for a lower order bug Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:26:11 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="31566"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GhwQ7Uabvxm3T/+VSr5BG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:4R9IsDyvGA3FcvmVyHeU2UK5Zk0= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11155 On 1/9/2012 5:02 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > What would you call a flaw in a program that had no effect on the > results, but needlessly made the program slower or confusing? Call them "bugs." Sub-classification as "venial bugs" and "mortal bugs" just reveals the classifier's lack of imagination. -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid