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From: bruns@tetibm2.ee.TU-Berlin.DE (Warner Bruns)
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
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 comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00
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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?