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Not bad, except that these employees are superhuman in one crucial way: You only ever have to give them a procedure once, and they've got it for good, and you can then build on that procedure to define more complex ones.


True, but procedures can be coded as "go to page 5, do instructions 2 to 55, and move to instruction 3 on this page."

Of course page 5 was probably written by someone else, because it's probably a very basic instruction. But that just adds to our fun as programmers!


And by page 5, we really mean the 6th page of the book.

Oh, and instruction 2? It was the third instruction, and mentioned that you should switch books.


Except if you give them a procedure that doesn't make sense (Like divide the restaurant by Zero) you either open the restaurant for international terrorists, the place blows up or they snap and go postal.




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