From: bruns@tetibm2.ee.TU-Berlin.DE (Warner Bruns)
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7mfpke$ebq$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 378B3D39.28B3@cacd.rockwell.com
In article <FEtE5A.Cu0@research.att.com>, ark@research.att.com (Andrew
Koenig) writes:
> In article <378B3D39.28B3@cacd.rockwell.com>,
> P.S. Norby <psnorby@cacd.rockwell.com> wrote:
> > Scott McMahan wrote:
>
> > > COBOL was replaced by C. A perfectly understandable language based on
> > > English that allowed you to tell the computer what to do was replaced
> > > by a language that looked like modem line noise.
>
> Cobol. Perfectly understandable. Yeah, right.
>
> OK, here's a pop quiz. If X is 7 and Y is 3 and you execute
>
> MULTIPLY X BY Y.
>
> what will be the values of X and Y afterwards?
> --
> Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
Let me guess:
X now has the value of 21
Is this right?
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
[not found] ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns [this message]
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
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