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by MarleTangible 42 days ago
Back in early days of personal computers, the instructor told us that a computer just does what you tell tell it to do, though not always what you thought, and making a mistake thousands of times a second hurts a lot.
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That's still how the intro programming or CS classes start, "computer is a fast idiot" and some examples of it taking things overly literally