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They Are Called Computers Simply Because Computation Is The Only Significant Job That Has So Far Been Given To Them.
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They are called computers simply because computation is the only
significant job that has so far been given to them.
-- Louis Ridenour
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They are called computers simply because computation is the only significant job that has so far been given to them.
Computers have rights, too. Everyone talks about the rights of animals, but so far nothing has been said about the tragic plight of computers the world over.
They are subjected to the greatest horror ever conceived...
dead code: n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....
dead code n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
-- Dr. Johnso...
Cruickshank's Law of Committees: If a committee is allowed to discuss a bad idea long enough
it will inevitably decide to implement the idea simply because so much work has already been done on it....
computron /kom'pyoo-tron`/ n. 1. [common] A notional unit of computing power combining instruction speed and storage capacity
dimensioned roughly in instructions-per-second times megabytes-of-main-store times megabytes-of-mass-storage....
Cinderella Book [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it....
Cinderella Book: [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it....