Juan-Carlos Gandhi (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
juan_gandhi) wrote2008-10-29 06:07 pm
juan_gandhi) wrote2008-10-29 06:07 pm
Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Bug
from here
A heisenbug (named after the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle)is a computer bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it.
A schroedinbug is a bug that manifests only after someone reading source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked in the first place, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed.
A Bohr bug or bohrbug (named after the Bohr atom model) is a bug that manifests itself consistently under a well-defined (but possibly unknown) set of conditions.
A mandelbug (named after fractal innovator Benoît Mandelbrot) is a computer bug whose causes are so complex that its behavior appears chaotic.
See also
* Cargo cult programming
A heisenbug (named after the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle)is a computer bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it.
A schroedinbug is a bug that manifests only after someone reading source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked in the first place, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed.
A Bohr bug or bohrbug (named after the Bohr atom model) is a bug that manifests itself consistently under a well-defined (but possibly unknown) set of conditions.
A mandelbug (named after fractal innovator Benoît Mandelbrot) is a computer bug whose causes are so complex that its behavior appears chaotic.
See also
* Cargo cult programming
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