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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="3">Maybe that's why he failed. <img title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f60f.png" width="16" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"> </font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="3">-- Bob Primak </font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><br></div>
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On Saturday, December 30, 2023 at 02:25:11 PM EST, Ken Pogran via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv0845866757"><div>While we might excuse the result of
executing an improperly-specified and consequently ambiguous procedure,
the gentleman actually failed to meet the project's detailed design
spec: She specifically asked for a <span style="font-weight:bold;">carton</span>
of milk, whereas he returned with milk in <span style="font-weight:bold;">bottles</span>.<br clear="none">
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But the whole routine should have failed to compile and run in the first
place due to typos in the source code: "avacados" and "avacodos" vs.
the <span style="font-weight:bold;">avocados</span> that were to have
been sought at the shop.<br clear="none">
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</span>Ken Pogran<span style="font-weight:bold;"><br clear="none">
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<span>Carl Lazarus via LCTG wrote on 12/30/23 1:47 PM:</span><br clear="none">
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</blockquote></div></div><div id="yiv0845866757yqtfd10483" class="yiv0845866757yqt0640456142"><div><div>This is what computers do when your instructions
aren’t precise enough. Also, probably what robots will do when we give
them tasks.</div>
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Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 6:04 AM John P. Rudy via LCTG <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>>
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