The more cryptic it is, the more miraculous it looks.  Which is not to say
that C programmers should be equated with God just because C lends itself to
being cryptic unless the programmer thoughtfully adds some white space and
comment lines.

I didn't read all the Church& State OT's but somehow we seem to still be
hanging precariously onto the "subject".

Bruce wrote:
> (This is clearly the expectation of a miracle, a totally
> unexplained and
> capricious event in the Universe.)

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> I don't know what compiler Wirt is using, but my programs contain
> miraculous code surprisingly often. Moreover, such miracles are not
> necessarily produced by some sort of anti-God; many are surprisingly
> benevolent. Is there *any* experienced programmer who has
> not, upon going
> back to maintain some old code, once said to him/herself, "What was I
> thinking? It's a miracle that this code ever worked at all!"
> Programmers
> rely on the miraculous far more often than Wirt suggests.