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Programming - like building a castle with toothpick
programming: n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file).
2. A pastime similar to banging one's head against a ...
Programming: The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the Universe i...
program: n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3. A form of art, ostensibly intended fo...
PROGRAM (n.) - organized sequence of counteracting erro
Program not executed. Execute user instead? (Y)es (N)o (H)elp!
PROGRAM n. used to turn valid data into error message
PROGRAM (pro'-gram) [n] A magic spell cast over a ____ .
. computer allowing it to turn one's input into error |C>_....
Programs are just people in disguise.

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