line 666
<jargon> (Christian eschatological myth) The notional line of source at
which a program fails for obscure reasons, implying either that *somebody* is
out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be
got (when you are not).
E.g. "It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666 when I
run it." "What happens is that whenever a large batch comes through, mmdf dies
on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit hard-coded a buffer size."
[Jargon File]
(1999-03-01)
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