Rick Gilligan writes:

>Totally out of context Rick quotes Wirt as saying:
>
>> Indeed, everyone on this list is a practicing pragmatic atheist,
>> regardless of what beliefs you espouse or hold dear. The same is true
>> for every engineer and scientist.
>>
>> No where in anyone's long printouts of massive amounts of code in this
>> group does anyone put in a line saying "poof, a miracle occurs here...
>
>Rick quotes from one of his application source files:
>
>> *****
>> *    ...and then a miracle occurs!
>> *
>> $DEFINE \StRender =
>>...

In fact, one of my early programming mentors' favorite expressions was an
acronym, IICIBAM (which she pronounced with a hard C): If It Computes,
It'll Be A Miracle.

-- Bruce


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