Ah, the elusive DWIM…
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: >>> >>>> "we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming" >>>> >>>> sounds like a compiler. >>>> >>>> >>> Not like the IBM 370 COBOL compiler I once worked on: >>> >>> "Probable user error, correct and re-submit" -- thanks a lot. >>> >>> Howard >> >> >> One of my teachers worked on the first compilers for NASA. He said they >> had errors something like "You forgot a closing parenthesis you idiot", but >> they made them take the last part out. >> >> Paul >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > After years of programming, I still never got the 'You Know What I Mean' > compiler that would just fix minor syntax issues and go on. ... Oh well. > > > -- > ><> ... Jack > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > Henry J. Tillman > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " > - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 > "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
