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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2003-09-08

"People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be strict in how they speak and liberal in how they listen. You'd think that would also be obvious." -- Larry Wall, Inventor of Perl. (Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] acroyear70 for pointing it out.)

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 07:33am on 2003-09-08
OW!
Show me a program or script with a set of fluky neurotransmitters and hormone levels, and then, please, quickly delete it. Do they feel pain when one hits that key? Oh, dear.
I like to think people construct programs to be better than the people are. (rest of comment deleted)

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