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by PittleyDunkin 563 days ago
What is the utility of this sense of "bug"? If not all bugs can be fixed it seems better to toss the entire concept of a "bug" out the window as no longer useful for describing the behavior of software.
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What is utility of any other sense? I expect null pointer to happen. It is still a bug. Even if it is in some kind of special situation we dont have time to fix.

> If not all bugs can be fixed it seems better to toss the entire concept of a "bug" out the window as no longer useful for describing the behavior of software.

Then those are bugs you cant fix. It is just lying to yourself to call them not a bug ... if they are bugs.