You programmed the machine to delete those irrelevant numbers.

你让这台机器删除无关信息。

He also programmed his change machines to only accept smaller bills.

他还对换零钱机器进行了编程，使其只接受小额钞票。

To place all of our trust in the dreams of badly programmed machines would be to abandon such critical thinking altogether.

将我们所有的信任都寄托在糟糕编程的机器的幻想中，将意味着完全放弃了这种批判性思维。

The need to programme machines existed way before the development of computers.

在计算机发展之前就存在对机器进行编程的需求。

Given the enormous cost of these early computers, weeks of downtime simply to switch programs was unacceptable and the new, faster, more flexible way to programme machines was badly needed.

考虑到这些早期计算机的巨大成本，仅仅为了切换程序而停机数周是不可接受的， 因此迫切需要一种新的、更快、更灵活的机器编程方法。