Posted by dorayme on 04/26/07 01:58

In article <f0o39r$5hb$1@aioe.org>,
Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> wrote:

> But of course bugs don't have to follow any logic...

This is a tricky question. At the level of computer programming
and unexpected side effects on the machine, there is very likely
a logic in the sense of a deterministic algorithm: sets of
circumstances, which if repeated, will trigger the effect. The
bug label is due to its unwanted effect and often to its hidden
causal paths.

It is not out of the question that some things happen as
surprising unintended effects in other than this algorithmic way,
as an instability that is sensitive to all sorts of dynamical
processes, so special appearing, that it falls outside the usual
deterministic causal chains that earthlings understand.

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dorayme

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