who cares about the distinction, just do the work and satisfy the user community
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'''Bugs''' are what you don't want, whether they are natural pests (like insects) or flaws in a human-engineered product.
'''Bugs''' are what you don't want, whether they are natural pests (like insects) or flaws in a human-engineered product.
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'''Software bugs''' are errors in [[computer software]]. Some [[computer programmer]]s distinguish between [[coding error]]s and [[design flaw]]s, often using the half-joking justification, "That's not a bug. It's a [[feature]]!"
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'''Software bugs''' are errors in [[computer software]].
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* Some [[computer programmer]]s distinguish between [[coding error]]s and [[design flaw]]s, often using the half-joking justification, "That's not a bug. It's a [[feature]]!"
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* Often the distinction between a coding error, a design flaw and a feature request is disregarded. Indeed, [[Sun Microsystems]] maintains a [http://bugs.sun.com/ bug parade] for their [[Java]] platform which lets everyone in the world vote for a bug fix or feature request.
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==External links==
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* [http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport Report a bug or request a feature] - at Sun