Comment by seanhunter

What I mean by "worked" in this context is compiled/parsed[1] without error and had correct behaviour when executed.

I have been programming professionally for about 30 years at this point, so it has happened to me literally hundreds of times at this point in at least 10 other languages- in fact in some languages (especially Haskell and Rust) I would say it's the norm for me rather than the exception to have the code work correctly if it passes compilation (which is sort of the point of strict type systems obviously).

It literally only ever happened the one time in kdb which is why I remember it so vividly and not in those other languages.

I have no idea why you thought your closing note might help, but sure.

[1] Depending on language obviously.