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- From: conniff@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (Steven D. Conniff)
- Subject: Re: What do you say.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.184429.24218@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com>
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- Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM at Ann Arbor, MI
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:44:29 GMT
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- > We had a guy where I used to work that couldn't understand how arrays of
- > dimension >= 2 were stored in memory. Not just row/column major confusion,
- > but big conceptual problems about _where_ the next row/column got stored...
-
- > I'm sure that this will motivate many other entertaining and enlightening
- > 'clueless programmer stories' (kind of like stupid pet tricks, no?)
-
- I've got tons of stupid sayings from my roommates in college who were
- mostly EEs. Here are a couple: (NOTE: same stupid guy in both cases)
-
- - My roommate was taking a 100 level Fortran Class at MSU. One day
- he comes home from class going crazy. He told us that he started
- a virius on a machine in the lab. We asked, "How did you do that?"
- His response: "I made a Fortran program with a while loop that
- wouldn't stop. You know. An infinite loop."
-
- - One other day, I came home from my compiler class raging about
- a bug that I couldn't find. He doesn't even look up from the
- Genesis game that he's playing and says, "I don't see what the
- big deal is about computers. I mean, they can only do what you
- tell them to do."
-
- "W H A T D O Y O U S A Y ? ? ? "
-
- "W H A T D O Y O U S A Y ? ? ? "
-
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