And will make mistakes. And therefore, you write your programs so that catastrophes don't occur when those mistakes are made.

就是人是很愚蠢的，会犯错误的，因此，你要这样设计你的程序,以达到当犯错误时避免大事故的目的。

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it's designed to have the students, I guess, be able to say, more or less,

我想，课程设计的目的是，概括的讲，

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And what it was designed to do, was to solve that specific problem.

这就是它被设计出来的目的，用于解决某种专门的问题。

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