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• Quote #579 Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed by a committee.
  Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst danger of committees is that they interfere with redesign....
• WYSIAYG /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is All You Ge
  an unhappy variant of WYSIWYG. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...
• PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, {WYSIWYG}.
  Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...
• Quote #655 Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it suits the way they write software.
  At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers....
• WYSIAYG: /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is *All* You Ge
  an unhappy variant of {WYSIWYG}. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...
• ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== CAR and CDR now return extra values.
  The function CAR now returns two values. Since it has to go to the trouble to figure out if the object is carcdr-able anyway, we figured you might as well get both halves at once....
• Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the earth is circular, but also that it is a circle of no great size.
  For quite a small change of position to south or north causes a manifest alteration of the horizon....
• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol
  prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be hacker....