The *ART* of Computer Programming

[Barry Shein]

>What is a one-time program?  Is that a program to solve a problem that
>will never come up again?  I don't think there's any such thing.

Sure there is, consider a program which generated the tables used for
interpolating sin and other trignometric functions in a math library.

Why would you need to run that program after it works correctly once?
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        -Barry Shein

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