by anyone with access to a terminal. This calls for a higher level of skill on
the part of operators which at present is not reflected in the salaries paid to
operators, some of whom are carrying out the tasks that once were assigned
to maintenance engineers or programmers.
Exercise 3
Which of the following errors could easily be detected by a
programmed computer and which would probably require
intervention.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Today's date.
Name of a client.
Income-tax coding.
Post code of an address.
Day on which Christmas 1995 will fall.
suitably
human
Higher-level functions
The functions that we have been looking at ar ...
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