>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
There is a reason behind every single epigram selected for the list.
>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
If you meditate for a while on any epigram on the list, you'll start thinking about another meaning.
One of the more interesting examples - if you have a somewhat broad overview of programming languages, and a pinch of cross-cultural awareness: If your computer speaks English it was probably made in Japan.
I've written on paper from childhood and I still can't read my own handwriting.
I remember one time I found something I'd written in grade school and I could barely make it out -- until suddenly the memory clicked in my brain and I could understand every word. But only because I was associating the crude shapes with memories of what I wrote!
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 35.1 ms ] threadThere is a reason behind every single epigram selected for the list.
>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
If you meditate for a while on any epigram on the list, you'll start thinking about another meaning.
One of the more interesting examples - if you have a somewhat broad overview of programming languages, and a pinch of cross-cultural awareness: If your computer speaks English it was probably made in Japan.
Can anyone confirm? :)
I remember one time I found something I'd written in grade school and I could barely make it out -- until suddenly the memory clicked in my brain and I could understand every word. But only because I was associating the crude shapes with memories of what I wrote!
It is much the same with my programs.
> Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
And:
> Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
There's one more, but it might be too direct for people to accept:
> Programming is an unnatural act.