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Every line is a potential bug (2009)
September 19, 2009 Last summer I wrote some code to get a message out of a hash table. The message was going to be put there by another thread.
In order to save the computer one rare thread switch, he introduced a bug that would have occasionally and mysteriously caused operations to fail. (Update 3-15-2010: Ajit Mandalay pointed out another bad scenario: the subtraction yields 0, which means “infinity”, and the loop potentially never exits.) Do not write any line of code unless you absolutely need it right now and your program will suffer for the lack of it.
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