The New Hacker's Dictionary¶
Raymond. (1997). The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT Press.
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- Heisenbug
- The name originates in folklore from Jim Gray's writings on fault-tolerant systems and is part of a small classification family: bohrbug (always reproducible), heisenbug (disappears under observation), mandelbug (chaotic across observations), and Schrödinbug (latent until someone reads the code).
This sourceThe dictionary entries for the four-term folklore taxonomy - bohrbug, heisenbug, mandelbug, schroedinbug - with the definitions given here; it does not attribute the coinage to Jim Gray, and gives Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as the etymology.
- The name originates in folklore from Jim Gray's writings on fault-tolerant systems and is part of a small classification family: bohrbug (always reproducible), heisenbug (disappears under observation), mandelbug (chaotic across observations), and Schrödinbug (latent until someone reads the code).
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