I didn't change anything!
An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test. The
canonical reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did
before, doesn't it?" See also one-line fix. This is also heard from applications
programmers trying to blame an obvious applications problem on an unrelated
systems software change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after terminals were
added to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be false. Upon close
questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of the program that
shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but which actually hosed the
code completely.
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