In the grand programming tradition of ‘off by one’ errors, yesterday was the birthday of Charles Babbage.
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
How little things have changed, eh?
(and yes… I expect that regular blogging will resume shortly…)
Posted by protected static as programming at 11:27 PM UTC