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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

Alan Perlis
Two, Purpose, Program
"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.