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"The Babbage Language Design Group is continuously evaluating new features that will keep its users from reaching any level of effectiveness. For instance, Babbage's designers are now considering the ALMOST EQUALS sign, used for comparing two floating-point numbers. This new feature 'takes the worry out of being close.'" -- Tony Karp, "Babbage - The language of the future", Datamation, September 1981

[I've been carrying chunks of this around in my head for decades, probably from reading the original in Datamation (Dad used to get it). And then I got old enough that younger programmers had no idea what I was referring to when I mentioned a GOING GOING GONE statement, or the Virtual Time Operating System. Enjoy Babbage, the language "named after the first systems designer to go over budget and behind schedule."]