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Donald Knuth has insisted on the fact that documentation can be a very difficult afterthought process and has advocated literate programming, writing at the same time and location as the source code and extracted by automatic means.
According to Noone and Hopwood, the song was recorded as an afterthought in two takes – using two microphones, with Hopwood on guitar, Green on bass guitar and Whitwam on drums.
The dashboard, instruments and controls were revised, for a the second time, having already been reworked in October 1963 when round instruments replaced the strip speedometer with which the car had been launched: twelve years later, however, the painted steel dashboard, its " knobs scattered all over the place and its heater controls stuck underneath as a very obvious afterthought " on the 1964 Mark I Cortina was felt to have aged much less well than the car's ventilation system.
Blackstone also adds a brief chapter on equity, the parallel legal system that existed in English law at the time, seeking to address wrongs that the common law did not handle ; the chapter on equity seems almost an afterthought.
It was added as an afterthought to represent the " status of permanent neutrality ," which was accepted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 12, 1995.
In the chapter on Darwin's finches, Wells argues that Darwin's finches were merely a " speculative afterthought ".
Within each category, the various châteaux are ranked in order of quality and only twice since the 1855 classification has there been a change, first when in 1856 Cantemerle was added as a fifth growth ( having either been originally omitted by oversight or added as an afterthought, depending on which of the conflicting accounts is correct ) and, more significantly, in 1973, when Château Mouton Rothschild was elevated from a second growth to a first growth vineyard after decades of intense lobbying by the powerful Philippe de Rothschild.
The " Order to Cash " process for instance is what brings revenue into a company, but often, conventional companies are so focused on their individual departments that the cross functional process is an afterthought.
According to an interview with Zach Johnson from 2010, Johnson originally established the Mr. Accessory revenue model as " kind of an afterthought ", but it became lucrative enough to allow him to work on the game full-time and eventually to hire several permanent employees.
Whenever addressed, he wriggled convulsively, and his lips, which were three times too large for him, and had been put on hastily as an afterthought, emitted the most extraordinary laugh that had ever come my way ; to these advantages he united those of being extraordinarily well read, over flowing with exquisitely subtle humour, and being one of the best natured people that ever trod this planet .
Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885, to hold the high ground southwest of Rochester, South East England.
Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885.
While the birds seemed almost an afterthought the ornithologist John Gould took them on and was quick to notice the significance of specimens from the Galápagos Islands.
The Dating Game focused entirely on the choice of a dating partner ; the date itself was a complete afterthought.
Unlike other PDAs being introduced at the same time, the Magic Cap system did not rely on handwriting recognition, which meant it was almost an afterthought in terms of media coverage when Apple introduced the Newton.
Gelatin silver print paper was made as early as 1874 on a commercial basis, but it was poor quality because the dry-plate emulsion was coated onto the paper only as an afterthought.
The nineteenth of these canons forbids the use also of homoousios and tautoousios ; this may be an afterthought due to the instance of Macedonius, as Basil does not seem to have insisted on it later.
They put on plays that were actually just spectacles, where the text of the play was almost an afterthought.
Jeremy Nicholas says that the book is " unfairly chastised as being an ineffectual afterthought " to Three Men in a Boat, and that " the set pieces ( the boot shop, Harris and his wife on the tandem, Harris confronting the hose-pipe, the animal riot in the hill-top restaurant ) are as polished and funny ( funnier, some would say ) as anything in the earlier book.
Former Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot, who was acquired by the Cardinals from the Los Angeles Dodgers on November 30, 2010, told a St. Louis radio station that he was " finally on the right side of the Cardinals-Cubs rivalry " and that he was happy to be with an organization that emphasized winning World Series championships instead of being " an afterthought ".

afterthought and plot
Apart from Truth Be Told, the episodes of Alias are often unconventionally structured in that the title credits are usually shown well into the plot, almost as an afterthought.
The game was not developed with an overarching plot structure in mind and this was implemented as something of an afterthought towards the end of development.

afterthought and from
The name " COMPAQ " was said to be derived from " Compatibility and Quality " but this explanation was an afterthought.
This helped to better document the standard, but was done more as an afterthought, as the syntax crafting was done independently of the model, instead of being generated from the model.
Contrary to what has been reported in other places, Lee envisioned the horns and strings from the beginning, and they were not added as an afterthought.
The name, which by an ingenious afterthought is explained as “ the fore thinker ,” is originally the sanskrit pramantha and means “ twirler ” or “ fire-stick ,” being the rod of hard wood which produced fire by rapid rotation in a piece of soft wood .< p > We cannot deny that the myth must have been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen has been derived from the same prototype as the Greek Prometheus.
Graham Greene controversially omitted Last Post from his Bodley Head edition of Ford's writing, calling it " an afterthought which he ( Ford ) had not intended to write and later regretted having written.
Buckbarrow can also be bagged almost as an afterthought as the walker descends from Seatallan.
It is not known if the introduction of these characters was an afterthought by Chaucer or if they were part of the design of the Tales from the start.
The initial draft of the Constitution did not even mention the Church, which was included almost as an afterthought and only after intense pressure from the church's leadership.
He played the song as he visualised it, and it went from being a song that could have been an afterthought, to becoming one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers ' greatest hits, similar to the way " Under the Bridge " was conceived.
Ironically, considering the song's overwhelming success, " Everybody Wants to Rule the World " was somewhat of an afterthought during the recording of Songs from the Big Chair.

afterthought and for
A fundamental principle is the long-term sustainability of the production of goods and services by the ecosystem ; " intergenerational sustainability a precondition for management, not an afterthought ".
People began to prepare the fruit and spice filling months before it was required, storing it in jars, and as Great Britain entered the Victorian age, the addition of meat had, for many, become an afterthought ( although the use of suet remains ).
" An anonymous reviewer in The Edinburgh Magazine for October 1820 added to a discussion of some of Keats's longer poems the afterthought that " The ode to ' Fancy ,' and the ode to ' Autumn ,' also have great merit.
Where the dogtooth is added as an afterthought as for example with the Hawker Hunter and some variants of the Quest Kodiak, the dogtooth is created by adding an extension to the outer span only of the leading edge.
Portable stoves are therefore generally rated in terms of how quickly they can boil a liter ( or other appropriate size ) of water ; indeed, some commercial stove models are specifically optimized for fast boiling, with other operations such as frying or baking being an afterthought.
As an afterthought, it was Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's belief – unlike that of the General Staff's – that once the United States entered the war, the prospects for Germany would indeed be bleak.
After the lyric " I live for my dreams and a pocketful of gold " he would muse the phrase " Acapulco Gold " as if an afterthought or clarification.
Few companies even manufacture dedicated FM or AM / FM tuners now, as these bands are most often included in a low cost chip for A / V systems, more as an afterthought, rather than designed for the critical FM listener.
Although its origin as a comic strip license played a major part, Donkey Kong marked the first time that the storyline for a video game preceded the game's programming rather than simply being appended as an afterthought.
Sooraya neglects to join her teammates in raiding the Purifier's most important base in D. C. merely because she thinks that her squad leader, Surge, is out for vengeance and that she is only ambushing the Purifiers for the baby as an afterthought.
' If Zoltán hadn't finally said cut, as an afterthought, it would have been all over for me.
There is no context in which the argument structure of another verb or construction would require-megc to appear and there is no way ( possibly except for afterthought ) in which a-megc-clause could come sentence-final.
The newer groups were being created in suburban locales and often to provide alternative Sunday schools for children, with adult activities as an afterthought.
But for the critics of Field Day, and even to some of their supporters, a separate volume, issued as an afterthought, became emblematic of the marginalization of women within nationalist and cultural discourse.
The second phase of the Memorial for Swami Vivekananda was not an afterthought in Shri Eknath Ranade ’ s mind.

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