[mlthoughts2018]

Yet you focus only on one aspect of the linked discussion on the high rate of misimplementations, an aspect that represents the least relevant part, and then act as if this invalidates the point?

That’s not sincere, it’s disingenuous.

[luc4sdreyer]

I didn't say it invalidates the point, because I honestly don't know what your point was to begin with. Which is why I asked the question originally. I'm still no closer to knowing, and it seems like you're not interested in elaborating. Suit yourself.

[mlthoughts2018]

This is an extremely disingenuous reply as well. You started off your first reply by saying “the bug only manifests ...” already pre-supposing that the scope of my original comment was restricted to that one thing, and tacitly ignoring all the other aspects of the link.

The (obvious) point is that binary search is widely misimplemented even by professionals writing textbooks (and this had little to do with the specific Java bug responsible for that one example), and this is all stated directly in the link you didn’t read.

It’s comically ill-suited for time based tech screens as even experts teaming with editors often still get it wrong.