14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
1:38 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, John Floren wrote:
YOUR *MOM'S* A COMPUTER! OOOOH! Wait...
It's like being a freshman all over again.
And what's special about that? Historically a "computer" is a person who
does computations (what else?), this job description may well originate
from the 19th century.
And a "compiler"
generally is/was an insult for someone, mostly for
scientists/students and the like, because that meant that they "compiled"
their work mostly/completely from foreign texts.
Christian