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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>line 666</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html" title="like nailing jelly to a tree"/><link rel="next" href="line-eater--the.html" title="line eater, the"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">line 666</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="line-eater--the.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="line-666"/><dt xmlns="" id="line-666"><b>line 666</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Christian eschatological myth] <span class="grammar">n.</span> The notional line of source at which a program
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fails for obscure reasons, implying either that
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<span class="emphasis"><em>somebody</em></span> is out to get it (when you are the
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programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not).
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“<span class="quote">It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666
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when I run it.</span>” “<span class="quote">What happens is that whenever a large batch
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comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit
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hardcoded a buffer size.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="line-eater--the.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">like nailing jelly to a tree </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> line eater, the</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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