13th May 2005, 3:55 PM
Well, I for one think it was a perfectly sensible thing to do. What the heck did we ever really do anyway?
"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)