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17th July 2007 - Link Blog

Understanding Engineers: Feasibility. Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.

Posted 17th July 2007 at 10:24 am

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