OK, does anybody *else* find that testing software makes you... 
slightly... paranoid??

I wrote a program with the simple purpose of checking that two files are 
identical. It passed all the tests I constructed. Performed flawlessly. 
(But then, it's a pretty trivial task, right?)

Today, I suddenly discovered that it sometimes gives you the wrong 
answer. (!!!) Specifically, I constructed two very slightly different 
files that are erroneously reported as being identical.

Obviously, it's pretty easy to fix my program, and I can add a new test 
case to the system to catch this in future. But considering that "it's 
so simple there's nothing that can go wrong"... now I'm wondering 
exactly what the hell *else* my test cases haven't caught! o_O

[For anybody who cares: I forgot to put the streams into binary mode. So 
all the line-ends get converted to canonical form. OOPS!!]

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