In the interest of understanding more about how all this works, and with an open invitation from TMitTB, you attend a meeting of the programmers.
+In the interest of understanding more about how all this works and with an open invitation from TMitTB, you attend a meeting of the programmers.
Two of them are late, and bravely you ask the one already in attendance to explain what’s going on. He quickly gathers the limits of your information through a series of questions, beginning with, “Do you know what a Web page is?”
@@ -1608,7 +1608,7 @@In programming, there are as many ways to destroy something as to create something. One stray character is all that’s required. Say you forget a semicolon or use an accented “é” somewhere, but the code is not prepared for such a peculiarity—KABOOM! Or you add two things together, but one is the numeral 4 and the other is “4” as a string, as you might use to say “4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie.” To the computer, that “4 and 20” has no numeric significance.
-This sort of thing really happens, and part of the job is remembering that 4 + 20 is 24 and 4 + “20” is “420”.