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3 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: GIGO /gi:'goh/ 1. Garbage In Garbage Out A reference to the fact that computers, unlike humans, will unquestioningly process the most nonsensical of input data and produce nonsensical output. Of course a properly written program will reject input data that is obviously erroneous but such checking is not always easy to specify and is tedious to write. GIGO is usually said in response to {lusers} who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. Garbage In Gospel Out This more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in computerised" data. [{Jargon File}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out
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