Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!nntp.eutelia.it!news.newsland.it!eleonora.aioe.org!emma.aioe.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "x" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Programming is the Engineering Discipline of the Science that is Mathematics Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:00:16 +0300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1149554468.101169.75440@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1149566505.233718.323040@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s9btCjTiVvvsgWfav5q8uQ.user.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:41071 "Marshall" wrote in message news:1149566505.233718.323040@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com... > Rich Ryan wrote: > > > > I think you need another glass of wine. > Well, see, the thing about that is, when I take a glass of wine > I can't do *any* math. I can't do any programming either. > It's not like I don't drink. But if I'm planning on doing any > programming I stay dry. Fax machines watch out! One day I tryed to find the bug in a program and couldn't find it for hours. After a glass of alcohol, the brownian motion accelerated and I instantly found the error. It was right under my nose. A glass of alcohol might be just what you need to get out of a loop. :-) One interesting error I once encountered was in a numerical program due to too much copy/paste. The program produced correct answers but too slow. The error was just one character that needed to be changed from + to - :-) Other interesting error was due to a far call with near return (or something like that). The program entered in an infinite loop because returned to a place above a call to the same rutine. The program was written in Pascal and used no pointers. :-)