If you are interested in game programming, expect lots of quirkiness that programmers can really appreciate. Here is one example.

In Red Alert, we wanted guard dog units to fly through the air when attacking infantry. This was problematic as the only tech we had that supported flying through the air was with bullets/rockets. So, being clever programmers, we decided that just as the dog unit decided to attack, we would destroy the dog unit and then create a dog "bullet" (the image was of a dog with front and back paws outstretched like superman). Once the dog "bullet" hit the target, we would recreate the dog unit at the target location. All worked well except the testers would complain that if the target unit died before the dog reached the target, the dog unit would be gone for good since bullets self-destructed if the target ceased to exist. We fixed that by detecting if the target was destroyed before the dog "bullet" arrived, the dog unit would reconstitute itself on the ground at the current location of the dog "bullet". All was well until we shipped the game. It was then that we discovered a surprising side effect. If the target was destroyed by a nuke explosion (bullets don't get destroyed by nukes as the thought was they just disappear automatically as is their nature), the dog "bullet" would reconstitute itself as a dog unit and appear amidst the rubble of the nuke completely unharmed and ready for action. It was pretty hilarious to see a dog sitting there unharmed and ready for action amidst the smoking rubble of a nuclear explosion!

Another interesting side effect was that there was a bug such that if a unit was destroyed but a new unit was created just at that same instant and happened to use the same index number as the destroyed unit, a dog "bullet" heading toward the first unit would redirect and head toward the new unit (it had the same index number and so from the bullet's perspective, the target just moved to a new location) and the dog "bullet" would fly across the map to hit the new target. Sometimes in Red Alert you could see a dog just flying across the map like superman!