On 20 Nov 2003, skaller wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:29, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Martin Berger wrote:
> 
> > you are opening yourself up to heisenbugs, where the 
> > program works correctly with debugging turned on, and fails with debugging 
> > turned off).
> 
> OH! Where did that wonderful name heisenbugs come from?
> 

I got it from the Jargon file.

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