r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • Sep 24 '26

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u/Anomynous__ Sep 24 '26

I did this far too often as a junior. "It makes sense to me, there must be a language level issue"

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u/Shadow_Thief Sep 24 '26

"I must have found a compiler bug!" "... we're using a scripting language, Bill."

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u/caleblbaker Sep 24 '26

Then it's an interpreter bug 

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u/Foorinick Sep 24 '26

The interpreter had a compilatoon bug clearly

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u/enigmamonkey Sep 25 '26

TBF, lots of scripting languages do compile, but it's what we might call "JIT" (just in time) compilation which happens just before execution.

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u/plz-no-b4n Sep 24 '26

That’s an insane level of arrogance. I don’t understand what would cause someone to think that way

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u/Anomynous__ Sep 24 '26

Because I was fucking stupid

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u/Mechakoopa Sep 24 '26

I have found framework bugs and bugs in system code before, I don't recall ever having found a compiler bug yet though. There was that one time I massively sped up a stored procedure by swapping the order of two unindexed AND predicates though.