How Not to Program in C++

54 Chapter 4

41 // Print the total

42 std::cout << "The total is: " <<

43 total << std::endl;

44

45 return (0);

46 }

(Next Hint 87. Answer 21.)

A company I worked with had a communications line that would fail every

day at exactly 5:00 p.m. Every morning it would automatically start up

around 7:00 a.m. Extensive checks of both the hardware revealed nothing.

Finally, an engineer was assigned to stay after hours and watch the commu-

nications line. That night the problem went away.

The next night the communications went down as usual. The next

night the engineer stayed late and the problem went away. After several

cycles of this it was determined that th ...