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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: PyWart(2.7.8) IDLE is more buggy than "Joe's apartment"!
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:27:18 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> You call it a bug because you can't think of any way it could be
> beneficial. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Something isn't a
> bug because you find it annoying; it's a bug because it fails to
> implement the programmer's intentions and/or the docs/specification.

I was always taught that it's a "bug" is when a program doesn't do
what a reasonable user expects -- that it's got nothing to do with the
programmer's intent.

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