____________________________________________________________________________ / A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of \ | being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of | | incomprehensible answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague | | assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents | | and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of | | dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of | | annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was | | unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place. | \ -- IEEE Grid newsmagazine / ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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