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I don't know. If there's any kind of software that can get emotional and hurt, it's a compiler.


Good point. I've been misinterpreted by some pretty emotional interpreters, too.

I'm not going to name and shame the interpreter in question, but the person who originally wrote it was the same person who wrote the compiler in question, Richard M Stallman. ;)

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html




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