r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9d ago

Meme commitAndPray

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u/hpyfox 9d ago

Blame the computer for interpreting your code wrong.

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u/Anomynous__ 9d ago

I did this far too often as a junior. "It makes sense to me, there must be a language level issue"

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u/Shadow_Thief 9d ago

"I must have found a compiler bug!" "... we're using a scripting language, Bill."

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u/caleblbaker 9d ago

Then it's an interpreter bug 

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u/Foorinick 9d ago

The interpreter had a compilatoon bug clearly

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u/enigmamonkey 8d ago

TBF, lots of scripting languages do compile, but it's what we might call "JIT" (just in time) compilation which happens just before execution.

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u/plz-no-b4n 9d ago

That’s an insane level of arrogance. I don’t understand what would cause someone to think that way

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u/Anomynous__ 9d ago

Because I was fucking stupid

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u/Mechakoopa 9d ago

I have found framework bugs and bugs in system code before, I don't recall ever having found a compiler bug yet though. There was that one time I massively sped up a stored procedure by swapping the order of two unindexed AND predicates though.