Quick, Henry! The Flit!

[billroper]

I have spent the day exterminating a buglet that crept in with my last bug fix. I had correctly analyzed all of the cases except one, where -- instead of performing the analysis -- I looked at some old code and said "Well, they must have known what they were doing" and copied the old code.

It turns out that the right thing to do would have been to delete the old code. And I have now done so. And the test case that I got from our testers now runs correctly.

If I can just get permission to check the change in, I can declare victory.

Ok, I've declared victory. I'm waiting for the other side to surrender...

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Do they still make Flit? I've only ever encountered it in reference in Osa Johnson's travel books (I Married Adventure!) and so on. I'm glad that you, like it, got rid of *all* the bugs.

[madfilkentist]

I consider Flit "before my time," having heard of it only from Mad Magazine references, and I'm not young. But I once wrote a debugger called RAID (not to be confused with at least twenty other debuggers of the same name).

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

FLIT was the debugger on Univac 1100s. "Fault Location by Interpretive Testing".

I don't believe the insecticide was ever sold anywhere I lived.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

The other day, I fixed a bug and then found the same bug in a different place so fixed it again (and a third time, but through a more careful search). Then today, I made a significant change in the way I do something on the system, and the bugs came right back with a vengeance. Oddly enough, the solution was almost, but not quite, to back out the earlier fix.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Yer showin' yer age with that headline, bub...(g) Ted Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) did a whole series of cartoons for Flit brand insecticide back before World War II; I saw them once in a museum exhibition of his work. This may be where the line "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" originated.

[madfilkentist]

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