That was a joke, Dan. I've been programming for 58 years, and nobody has put in more bugs than me, I'm sure. Marc On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 6:28 PM Dan Cross wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 8:12 PM Marc Rochkind wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM Dan Cross wrote: > >> I had heard a story once, that based on what you wrote today, I now > >> think is apocryphal and never actually happened. > >> > >> The story was that there was a bug in early SCCS where a source file > >> had to be checked in twice before it could be (successfully) checked > >> out. The bug was such that if one only checked it in once and tried to > >> check it out, it would truncate the file. "Programmers using it just > >> learned to check in twice." > >> > >> I never used SCCS extensively, and certainly never observed that > >> behavior, so chucked it up to the bug having been long fixed. As I > >> mentioned above, I doubt it was ever there to begin with. A fun story, > >> though. > > > > This is completely ridiculous. No program I wrote ever had one of those > bug things. > > Oh dear, I do hope no offense was taken. As I said, I firmly believe > the story was apocryphal. > > The identity of the person from whom I heard it is probably known to > at least some of the USENIX old school crew; I rather thought at the > time they were under the impression that SCCS was the result of a > large team, or perhaps some kind of fork. > > Anyway, I don't mean to belabor the point. Please accept my apologies > if the story rubbed you the wrong way. > > - Dan C. > -- *My new email address is mrochkind@gmail.com *