The ones you love

You've all met them: That one bug in the program that takes 5 (with an upper case F, for good reasons) hours to track down. And it turns out you missed an "a" somewhere. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Or maybe just the stupid stupid bugs that you write in without even realising in. (writing "For each A between 1 and 10" instead of For a = 1 to 10 comes to my mind, hehe)

I just though I'd share some of the wonderful things I've had to find before.

1: y\x -> int(y/x) (rounding is different :mad: )
2: oops, forgot to put "a=a+1" in that "do while a < 100" loop with no doevents in it, hehe..
3: No option explicit (WORST MISTAKE EVER)
4: Hum, maybe I should've put a + instead of a ^.

Go on... share.

I've made some real royal cock ups in the past and will probably make many more in the future :bigyello: Here's a short list of just a few:

• Why can't I SSH to my computer after I have disabled networking via SSH?
• Why doesn't my DSL connect when the modem cable is unplugged?
• Why doesn't my C program written in VB compile?
• WHY THE HELL WON'T THIS WORK?
  
  VB Code:

  'Public Function isWinNT() As Boolean
  '    Dim OSInfo As OSVERSIONINFO
  '    
  '    OSInfo.dwOSVersionInfoSize = Len(OSInfo)
  '    
  '    Call GetVersionEx(OSInfo)
  '    
  '    If OSInfo.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT Then
  '        isWinNT = True
  '    Else
  '        isWinNT = False
  '    End If
  '    
  'End Function

• Why won't this computer with no hard disk boot up?
• I wonder what mv /* does when logged in as root?

For C++:

Code:

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if (i = 0)
{
    // Do stuff...
}

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I think I was born to much to VB, I just can't handle this one it always gets me and is almost impossible for me to spot half the time.

Code:

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then{
this.readonly=true;
}

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****ing "O" is supposed to be capitalized. :mad:

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Originally posted by Electroman
For C++:

Code:

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if (i = 0)
{
    // Do stuff...
}

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I think I was born to much to VB, I just can't handle this one it always gets me and is almost impossible for me to spot half the time.

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That one always screws me over in PHP as well. :(

New to .NET. Just this morning I discovered that you can set a property on a button that makes it act like an OK button.

Why in the world would you want to do that? If I wanted that F'in' functionality, I would write it myself:mad: :mad:

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Originally posted by Shaggy Hiker
New to .NET. Just this morning I discovered that you can set a property on a button that makes it act like an OK button.

Why in the world would you want to do that? If I wanted that F'in' functionality, I would write it myself:mad: :mad:

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:lol:

In C/C++

Code:

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int a[5];
a[5] = 7;

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Code:

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x=5
y=2

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this happened to me and made me f***ing angry, not entirely related to VB but to the computer hosting the program I made...

- If you have an ISA card (if there are any left in the world) never try joining the -12V line to GND. You'll need to find another power source...

Is there ANY reason to EVER have a programming language be case sensitive?? Are you ever going to want two variables, called A, and a? Isn't that just confusing???

I vote we make C++ case unsensitive!

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Posted by alkatran
I vote we make C++ case unsensitive!

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I second that.
Then the intelisense should work properly even when you just type in lower case :D.