WordNet
n. error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result [syn: software error]
Usage examples of "programming error".
They finally traced it back to a programming error in the computers that hadn’.
Owing to a programming error, Kell's R2 unit initially responded to any request for a random number with the value thirteen.
Then he joined Gerhard, looking for the programming error that had made it all possible.
At first I thought there had to be something wrong with the telltales, or maybe a programming error for the displays.
Thomas had kept copies of his deathbed scan file-off-line, in vaults in Geneva and New York-with no explicit purpose in mind, other than the vaguest notion that if something went irreparably wrong with his model, and the source of the problem-a slow virus, a subtle programming error-rendered all of his snapshots suspect, starting life again with no memories since 2045 would be better than nothing.
Besides, no programming error, no matter how horrendous, could have caused the problems they’.
A programming error would be less likely to draw the wrath of the Farmers.
So she took some secret delight whenever she saw Issya or Nyef frustrated by a stubbornly willful program until they finally found the programming error.