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Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
 Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Rage Against the Machine

Sounds like Dorothea Salo and Jim McGee (and Loyd and Stuart Langridge Kryogenix and ...) have the same scorn for these beasts that I do. One of my study hall periods in high school shared the same room with the computer class, so I picked up a little here and there while we played on the TRS-80s. Computers do what you tell them to do.

Right.

That may've been the case once, but that was long before the event-driven paradigm. Now computers incarnate programmers who attempt to guess at what you might want and then guess at what might be the appropriate response.

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