Word: pascale
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...created in the late 1970s by Donald E. Knuth, a renowned computer scientist at Stanford, as a research project on professional typesetting on computers. Knuth wrote the program--originally in Pascal--for the computer science community...
...steadily rising prices. This season, instead of aiming for the usual yield of 12,000 kilos of grapes per hectare, the pickers have been given a target of around 8,000 kilos. "It hurts the heart of a vineyard owner not to collect all the grapes," says Philippe Pascal, director general of Mumm's Champagne, "but it's best for quality...
Source code is the program as written in a computer language, usually C or Pascal. When you buy Microsoft Windows, you receive "object code" instead of source code. Computers understand object code, but the language is totally unreadable to humans. Source code can be translated into object code, but object code cannot be translated into source code...
...wise of the Christian Church. Indeed, I doubt that the Christian soul has been at such liberty since the days of the Molinists, who so ably defended the same cause until they fell victim to a cruel and unjust intellectual mugging at the hands of a certain M. Pascal...
...knows, as the modern Pascal might say, it may not work--but are we prepared to take the risk? I happen to believe that prayer on such occasions as this invites a sense of appropriate institutional modesty and places the occasion in the largest possible context: the mind...