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program n.

1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn

one's input into error messages. 2. An exercise in experimental

epistemology. 3. A form of art, ostensibly intended for the

instruction of computers, which is nevertheless almost inevitably

a failure if other programmers can't understand it.

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