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It's probably like software development.

"We fixed that bug, yay!"

"But now theres 5 bugs instead of one, what the hell?!"

"Well those are different bugs. Do you want them fixed, too?"

"AAAAAaah."




    99 bugs in our code, 99 bugs in our code.
    Look one up, mark it as fixed.
    103 bugs in our code, 103 bugs in our code...


wonderful - can we call it the infinite bugs song?


This is the advantage of programming over biology: when someone finds a "missing link", they only create two more opportunities to find more missing links. When a programmer fixes a bug, they can introduce an arbitrary number of new bugs.




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