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]Last updated: 1999-03-01
Nearby terms:
LindaLISP ♦ line ♦ line 666 ♦ linear address space ♦ linear argument
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