Every Program Has Two Purposes -- One For Which It Was Written And Another For Which It Wasn't.

Every Program Has Two Purposes -- One For Which It Was Written And Another For Which It Wasn't.

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Every program has two purposes -- one for which it was written and
another for which it wasn't.

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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Every program has two purposes -- one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne
another by which it cannot. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Enchiridion, xliii...