 Programmers excuses
Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Recently, I stumbled on this amusing list of things developers have said, when their software doesn’t quite work as intended:
- I thought I fixed that.
- Why do you want to do it that way?
- Where were you when the program blew up?
- Did you check for a virus?
- Somebody must have changed my code.
- It works, but it hasn’t been tested.
- You must have the wrong version.
- It worked yesterday.
- It’s never done that before.
- That’s weird.
I’m personally guilty of (1), (6) and (7) on the odd occasion with my own code. Looking at someone else’s code, I’ve often been heard to mutter (10) on a regular basis.
What about you?
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