24th February 2004, 1:47 PM
Also, one last thing in defense of ABF. I've read enough threads of your wars to determine for myself that ABF most certainly did NOT deserve the bulk of all those insults as you claim. They were uncalled for.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)