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Old 02-27-2014, 09:24 AM
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I found back in 1963 when I was first introduced to computers that I have a very logical thinking process and that made me a damn good programmer. I thoroughly enjoyed making them do my bidding and rapidly realized that they are simply high speed electronic idiots. They will do precisely what you tell them to do, no more, no less. One of the games we used to play with people impressed with computers was to tell them that they were computers and could only do exacttly what we told them to do. Then we would ask one of the non-programmers to tell the 'computer' to take off his shirt.
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