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Some writers call software design errors bugs, while others restrict the term to a flawed implementation of the program's design.
 
Either way, such errors are very common, and the effects are familiar to most computer users (see [[GPF]], [[crash]], [[freeze (computing)]]).
 
Software bugs can be very expensive. [[Steve McConnell]] recounts several bugs that cost over $100 million. Europe's [[[Ariane 5]] rocket that self-destructed due to a computer bug cost over $1 billion.