Nevin Pratt <nevin at smalltalkpro.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Anyway, in the reference above, Dijkstra recommended that faculty 
> members be fined $5 each time they use this type of anthropomorphic 
> terminology.
Never anthropomorphise computers. They hate that.

tim

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