[FRIAM] div. zero bugs?

[David Breecker]

OK, thanks Doug and Owen, I'm laughing.  

And I'm also noting that Cormac McCarthy (who has been hanging out at SFI lately, and even thanked the Institute in his last book) has a new one about a post-nuclear-apocalyptic society ("The Road").  Could this be the result of programming error?  Or haning out with programmers? ;-)
db
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Douglas Roberts 
  To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [FRIAM] div. zero bugs?


  Easy.

  Correct version:

   // World's last bug
   if (red_button_pressed == 1)

     launch_missile();


  The other version is guaranteed to bomb... 

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  Doug Roberts, RTI International
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  On 10/25/06, David Breecker <David at breeckerassociates.com> wrote:
    I was about to say:  can someone translate this joke into English?  (It
    looks funny, but...)

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Owen Densmore" <owen at backspaces.net >
    To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam at redfish.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:11 PM
    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] div. zero bugs? 


    >>> // World's last bug
    >>> if (red_button_pressed = 1)
    >>>    launch_missile();
    >>
    >> I thought that was pretty funny ^_^
    >
    > .. for all 7 of us who understood it! 
    >
    >     -- Owen
    >
    > Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
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