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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <1990Mar12.102407.9956@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Mar 90 10:24:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: alan@george.Jpl.Nasa.Gov's message of 1 Mar 90 23:37:32 GMT


>What is a one-time program?  Is that a program to solve a problem that
>will never come up again?  I don't think there's any such thing.

Sure there is, consider a program which generated the tables used for
interpolating sin and other trignometric functions in a math library.

Why would you need to run that program after it works correctly once?
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        -Barry Shein

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