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• Machine-Independent, adj.: Does not run on any existing machine.
• Machine-independent program: A program that will not run on any existing machine.
• Machine-independent program: A program that will not run on any machine.
• Machine independent code isn't.
• Quote #70 There is no such thing as a machine-independent optimization. (William Wulf ?)
• machinable adj. Machine-readable. Having the softcopy nature.
• In any computer system, the machine will always misinterpret, miconstrue, misprint, or not evaluate any math or subroutines or fail to print any output on at least the first run through.
• machinable: adj. Machine-readable. Having the {softcopy} nature. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who
  doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary....