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Re: [OM] OT - Windows and dates.

Subject: Re: [OM] OT - Windows and dates.
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 03:07:02 -0500
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 08:01:20PM -0400, John Petrush wrote:
> I also know the only software application that is bug-free is:
>     begin
>     end
> and performs no useful work.

True story:
There is a program that does exactly this supplied with IBM's MVS mainframe
operating system. (It's used to take advantage of some useful side effects.)
There was a bug report submitted against it, accepted by IBM, and for which
a patch was issued: it didn't tell MVS that it had successfully done
nothing. It grew from one machine instruction to two.

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