Talk:Mandelbug

heisenbug??

Can someone say if we don't need to s/heisenbug/mandelbug in §2? It appears to me quite strange; if it has to be corrected, thanks for correcting it in fr:Mandelbug too --Moala 2005-04-21 16:13 CET

This appears quite strange to me as well. Why would a definition of madelbug compare "Bohr bug" and "heisenbug"? §2 says that apparent chaotic behavior and real chaotic behavior looks the same. This would imply it's hard to tell the difference between a madelbug and a heisenbug. I believe it's a bug in the paragraph. I've corrected it here, even though every Jargon File on the web has it Bohr bug. --A D Monroe III 01:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I didn't fix fr:Mandelbug, since I don't parlee French. --A D Monroe III 01:31, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Additional meaning

While looking into the bug above, I realized I've never heard "mandelbug" used as described. The only way I've heard it is talking about a bug that appears to have infinite complexity -- not because it's chaotic, but because fixing it requires changing many things, and each change require many additional changes, and so on. In the worst cases, the end of the solution description ends up with some statement like "so we need to rewrite the whole system in Java".

I searched the web. Even though I couldn't find more than a couple of weak references to using it this way, I couldn't find any references to using it the way described here, except as exact duplicates of the Jargon File, which is the sole source for this article.

I added the way I've heard it used to this article. Maybe someone else can find better references for or against. --A D Monroe III 01:28, 22 July 2005 (UTC)