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Top replies by programmers, when their programs don’t work

Posted on 07. Sep, 2007 by Tahir Akram in Development

20 replies by programmers, when their programs do not work.

• “That’s weird…”
• “It’s never done that before.”
• “It worked yesterday.”
• “How is that possible?”
• “It must be a hardware problem.”
• “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
• “There is something funky in your data.”
• “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
• “You must have the wrong version.”
• “It’s just some unlucky coincidence.”
• “I can’t test everything!”
• “THIS can’t be the source of THAT.”
• “It works, but it hasn’t been tested.”
• “Somebody must have changed my code.”
• “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
• “Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
• “You can’t use that version on your system.”
• “Why do you want to do it that way?”
• “Where were you when the program blew up? and the number One reply is:
• “It works on my machine.”

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