• Letters, Programming 26.08.2008

    Dear MSIE 7,

    You just reported an error in my script, which reads:

    Line: 121561571
    Char: 4
    Error: ‘_input’ is null or not an object
    Code: 0

    That’s a lot of lines of code.  I’d like to propose a deal.

    I only wrote 3,507 lines of JavaScript for this application.  If I promise to debug all of my code, will you debug the remaining 121,558,064 lines yourself?  This arrangement seems entirely fair to me, since I really shouldn’t be held accountable for 121 million lines of code you just invented on the spot.

    Thank you for your cooperation,
    A developer who didn’t introduce any bugs just now.

    Posted by Ben @ 4:01 pm

  • One Response

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    • Sam Olsen Says:

      That’s okay, today I was teaching factors to my sixth graders and I had a student tell me that 9 times 12 is 7. I wanted to clarify and asked him if I took 12 piles of nine books, how many I would have total when I added together all the piles? Again, I got the answer 7.

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