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Try only to realise the truth : Comment 137 of 335 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Emeric SH on 05-Jul-2004 10:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 133 (Sammy Nordström): "If that's not what you intend to say, you are obviously not using the term correctly."
bug - An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature.
Now, trashed data after DMA transfer mets "malfunction" in my eyes.
But for your pleasure, a snippet from http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/feature - what is a feature?:
6. A bug that has been documented. To call something a feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the particular case, and that the program responded in a way that was unexpected but not strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can be turned into a feature simply by documenting it (then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" is a common catch-phrase.
Kind of familiar, isn't it? :) |
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