What's the silliest programming mistake you've ever done? [closed]

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Published on 2010-06-11T14:19:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 14:22 UTC
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Despite not being a professional programmer, i use python or c to accomplish simple tasks.

Once I needed a nasty equation to use with various data for physics lab. I thought that it would take a few hours if i used some mechanic calculator. Then i've written a python script to make things easier but something was wrong.

After finding my mistakes one of which was forgetting to put ":", i realized that it had already took 2-3 hours, not to mention inventing satanic arithmetic techniques since i thought the errors was caused by my math :)

Sometimes when you don't see it, you don't see it!

Now i can find the syntax errors without thinking for a moment :)

Any similar annoying mistakes that you've experienced?

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