Debugging

Mike Hankey

/De-buhg-ing/verb 1. Being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. Taken from Jack Ganssle's - The embedded muse #461

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MarkTJohnson

Or you are at least an accessory.

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

honey the codewitch

I kinda feel like it's investigating my own murder, but then you should see the situations I get myself into with code.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

Mike Hankey

I hear ya, sometimes I look back at code I've wrote and wonder if I'm part Italian. :)

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jmaida

well said

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

jmaida

mob code

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

Mike Hankey

Spaghetti code

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Daniel Pfeffer

My family hails from Poland (mostly), so I suppose I write meatloaf code - an undifferentiated mass full of unidentifiable bits and pieces. :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

Cpichols

It was a complicated murder. Lots of moving parts.

Gary Wheeler

Mike Hankey wrote:

Being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.

In my case, the murderer is dead and I'm the victim :suss:. I have to maintain a large body of code originally written by a guy who deliberately made it excruciating for anyone but himself to maintain. He did this in an effort to make himself indispensable. For over 20 years his supervision was terrified that he would leave. [long story omitted] He retired and passed away shortly thereafter. I inherited the great steaming pile left behind.

Software Zen: delete this;

agolddog

Not necessarily you. For whatever reason, I was thinking about my career today. Looking back, I was always put into the position to be the guy carrying the pager (back in those days), picking up abandoned/not working applications, etc. IOW, being responsible for being aware of and fixing bugs/performance problems. While stressful, it made me a much better developer. In such positions, you're exposed to lots of different coding techniques; sometimes, it's "wow, that's a good idea, I should incorporate that more." Of course, a lot of the time it's, "Wow. This person should be fired." Some people's purpose in life is to serve as an example. Not necessarily positive.

charlieg

A broken clock is correct twice/day :). "Wow. This person should be fired." This makes me laugh. My two primary products I support are either 20 or 10 years old. We religiously use SVN, but I cannot tell you how many times I've gone into SVN to see what bozo wrote this code... only to find my name on it. :doh: :^)

Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

Member 15078716

Spaghetti code I like that. May I use it free of charge and without having to give reference?

Mike Hankey

Member 15078716 wrote:

I like that. May I use it free of charge and without having to give reference?

Certainly, I was not the first to coin this phrase.

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trønderen

We used that term when I was a student 40+ years ago. And ever since.

Plamen Dragiyski

Respect for detectives, that assume libraries are quite places where no murder can occur.