And here in the mail, amplifying the message, is Oxford's " 1001 Computer Words You Need to Know . " I could ignore it, since the publication date is October, but those three little words-- " need to know "-- get under my skin, as they're meant to.
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Several helpful readers wanted to point out that parse is not just an old grammar word but also a new computer word : For electronic brains as for organic ones, to parse is to " analyze or separate input . . . into readily processed components, " wrote Ernie Black.
