What a programmer is full of after fixing the last bug and before
discovering the next last bug. Fred Brooks's book The Mythical
Man-Month (See Brooks's Law) contains the following paragraph that
describes this extremely well:
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery
especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy
godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away
all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is
merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the
young are always optimists. But however the selection process
works, the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run,"
or "I just found the last bug.".
See also {Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {Brooks's Law}]