On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:28:07 -0700 Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Think "bug" like "sickness", not "bug" like "flaw". > I was stumped for a moment by the reference to the "rm bug". Apparently it had been around for a while, I just could not figure out why I had never heard of it, after a while I realized the play on words. Reminded me of my days in Civil Engineering School, we had long complex calculations to enter into hand held calculators, frequently one would enter a wrong digit or so and the entire calculation would be wrong with no real way of spotting the error. We usually referred to these errors a "button punch disease" - no we did not have the flu but when it happened in the middle of an exam we certainly felt like we did.
