optimism

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最後のバグを直した後、次の最後のバグを発見する前のプログラマがみなぎらせているもの。Fred Brooksの著書The Mythical Man-Month(Brooks's Lawを参照)には、これを極めてよく描写した次の段落がある。

All programmers are optimists.  Perhaps this modern sorcery especially
attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers.  Perhaps the
hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus
on the end goal.  Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers
are younger, and the young are always optimists.  But however the selection
process works, the result is indisputable: This time it will surely
run, or I just found the last bug..

Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomologyも参照。