From: norman@oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
Subject: [TUHS] Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 09:30:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140531133051.5F2531DE37F@lignose.oclsc.org> (raw)
Noel Chiappa:
To me, it's completely amazing to find such a serious bug in such a critical
piece of widely-distributd code! A lesson for archaeologists...
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To me it's not surprising at all.
On one hand, current examples of widely-distributed critical
code containing serious flaws are legion. What, after all,
were the Heartbleed and OS X goto fail; bugs? What is every
version of Internet Explorer?
On the other hand, Ken and Dennis and the other guys behind
the earliest UNIX code were smart guys and good programmers,
but they were far from perfect; and back in those days we
were all a lot sloppier.
So surprising? No. Interesting? Certainly. All bugs are
interesting.
(To me, anyway. Back in the 1980s, when I was at Bell Labs,
SP&E published a paper by Don Knuth discussing all the many
bugs found in TeX, including some statistical analysis. I
thought it fascinating and revealing and think reading it
made me a better programmer. Rob Pike thought it was terribly
boring and shouldn't have been published. Decidedly different
viewpoints.)
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-31 13:30 Norman Wilson [this message]
2014-05-31 16:03 ` John Cowan
[not found] ` <20140531161620.GL28034@mcvoy.com>
2014-05-31 17:16 ` John Cowan
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2014-06-03 17:33 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-06-02 3:34 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-02 4:05 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-06-02 6:12 ` arnold
2014-06-03 12:11 ` emanuel stiebler
2014-06-02 3:18 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-02 2:14 Michael Spacefalcon
2014-06-02 2:51 ` John Cowan
2014-05-31 23:24 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-01 0:17 ` Kevin Schoedel
2014-06-01 22:54 ` scj
2014-06-01 23:48 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-02 1:11 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-06-02 2:10 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-03 16:38 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-05-31 15:55 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 16:18 ` Ron Natalie
2014-05-31 14:19 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 13:15 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 13:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-05-31 18:58 ` Tim Newsham
2014-05-31 19:48 ` Clem Cole
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