• From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@o...>
• To: <dlee@c...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:57:31 -0600

David, what you reference in your last paragraph is popularly known 
as a DWIM processor ;^)
    Jim

At 8/10/2011 07:38 PM, David Lee wrote:

>If you want magic to happen that always does the 'right thing' (citation
>needed) in software and reads the minds of the programmer's intent instead
>of what you actually told the computer to do your either in the wrong field
>or the wrong century.

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