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Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by Sniffnoy on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:14AM (#17538731)
Because you get to the solution and you say, "But that's just the same thing..."
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Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by djsumdog on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:16AM (#17538738)
It's like the joke with boiling the pot of water and just dumping out the water; reducing it to the previous problem with a known solution ... or something like that...
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