Even a program of a single instruction can have bugs

The previous entry [1] reminded of the following computer joke:

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction—from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Only it's not a joke—it really happened! [2]

[1] /boston/2015/02/02.1

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14#Implementation

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