23 Mar
2016
23 Mar
'16
10:28 p.m.
Ron Natalie scripsit:
Once out of college two of my subsequent jobs (one at
BRL and one at
Rutgers) was to deep six all the card processing equipment.
Virtually, however, unit-record processing is still with us in the
form of flow-based programming, of which Unix pipelines constitute a
degenerate case.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."