From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500543011 Sender: nntp@research.att.com X-Nntp-Posting-Host: raptor.research.att.com References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> <378B3D39.28B3@cacd.rockwell.com> Organization: AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ Newsgroups: 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 List-Id: In article <378B3D39.28B3@cacd.rockwell.com>, P.S. Norby 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