fable/fable.txt

The Koala, the Orangutan, and the Walrus.

The Koala, the Orangutan, and the Walrus.

One day, Koala decided to build an ftp server

and made the unfortunate choice to use the programming language C.

We must not be surprised by this choice, however, as C is well-known
to be a programming language that is effective for building systems
software.

After a few months of effort, Koala produced a functioning server that
was rapidly adopted across the internet and widely used.

One day, Orangutan decided to apply a new, automated testing technique
to Koala's ftp server and, sure enough, found multiple bugs ---

unsurprising for software of that complexity implemented in a
programming language like C. After all, C is designed for performance
and provides no help to maintain invariants of data structures or to
detect errors early, when they are easy to fix.

So, Orangutan decided to write a paper that explained the mathematical
techniques it used to uncover the bugs and made the unfortunate choice
to use the programming language LaTeX.

We must not be surprised by this choice, however, as LaTeX is
well-known to be a programming language that is effective for
typesetting mathematical formulas.  

After a few months of effort, Orangutan produced a paper extolling the
virtues of its new techniques, and the ideas were adopted across the
software engineering community and the paper was widely cited.

One day, Walrus decided to apply a new, lightweight mechanized
metatheory technique to Orangutan's paper and, sure enough, found
multiple bugs --- 

unsurprising for a piece of mathematics of that complexity implemented
in a programming language like LaTeX. 
After all, LaTeX is designed for beautiful output and provides no help
to check invariants of mathematical formulas or to run examples to
ensure they illustrate the intended points.

Moral: bugs are everywhere