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Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the huma feel as if he is in control.
Command - used to instruct computers. Usually elicits the response "Syntax error".
Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom.
-- Fielding...
COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Commentator: An average potato...
comment out: vt. To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marke
his prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. Often ...
Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person.
-- Axiom 2, Corollary 2C -- Ralph Keyes, The Rules of misquotatio...
Comment your variables.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
commercially developed software, which displays the quality far more often than it ought to.
Oppose {robust}....

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