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...I was tempted to relay the story of the best bug I ever found, and realized that it literally boils down to exactly what you said-a missing comma in a vendor's library. Wow.

What made it fun was that it was a SAS program (which I knew) with extremely complex, 5-layer deep macros that called VBScript (which I did not know) all over the place. Debugging stuff in a language you don't know under a tight deadline-that's a thrill!

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