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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
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Wednesday January 29, 2003
03:59 AM
Criss Cross
Joel explains how he located a bug through binary search
among revisions of a software project. However he forgets to add that a new
regression test will also help to avoid this situation to occur again in the
future.
This technique could prove incredibly useful, esp. when you have thousands of revisions and poorly-documented code. I occasionally use it, by hand. Andreas Koenig implemented a hack that automates this binary search for the perl source code.
-- Title of this journal entry by Thelonious Monk.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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