How well do you know your bugs?

bohrbug: a good, solid, bug.  named for the Bohr model of atomic structure.
bohrbugs do not change their behavior and are relatively easily detected.

hindenbug: a bug with catastrophic behavior.

heisenbug: a software bug that seems to disappear when one attempts to study it.


programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

mandelbug: a bug whose causes are so complex as to defy remediation, or one
which demonstrates seemingly chaotic or even non-deterministic behavior.


I hope you find these as amusing as I did.

Regards,
A.D.B.

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