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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 1014db,edd83659ff9286d0 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cd9f7e5a0d12003 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid4516fb5702,gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.191.225 with SMTP id hb1mr2434020pbc.5.1337758056700; Wed, 23 May 2012 00:27:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: pr3ni32608pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!pit-in1.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!61.9.128.156.MISMATCH!viwinnwcl01.internal.bigpond.com!viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: "Terence" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran References: <15puwddz4h6cl$.34i9lxveafeb.dlg@40tude.net> <3b5cewxtwayd.x41gqd4lwwm9.dlg@40tude.net> <169ese9h2bjqo.1qh6482rfr02t.dlg@40tude.net> Subject: Re: condition true or false? -> (-1 < sizeof("test")) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:26:41 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.210.1.137 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com 1337757977 121.210.1.137 (Wed, 23 May 2012 17:26:17 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:26:17 EST Organization: BigPond Date: 2012-05-23T17:26:41+10:00 List-Id: Funny; I remember the time when a "calculator' meant a person who calculated for a living. The clockwork machine he/she might very well use only understand a negative input as rotation of the crank one way, and positive as going the other over-the-top way. Would you believe I did a postgraduate degree in how, precisely, to use one of those hand-crank things properly, when studying Numerical Analysis? Yes, we had electricity of a sort (D.C.at 240 volt; no coil-based transformers - I had a minature train 00 layout with a dynamo-generator to get 240v down to 12v DC), but see R.Feynman on his opinion of the use of powered omputing devices at Los Alamos. It was very much later I met my first American Marchant machine (after we we got A.C. power). How could the electical power engineers guess wrong ?(like Edison did in the USA actually).