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echo: nthelp
to: Ellen K.
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2003-06-25 20:30:10
subject: Re: XP stumped by a file in My Documents

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

 Some people are just too funny...


Antti Kurenniemi
(I really really hate it when some programmers make idiotic assumptions like that)

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:6hjjfvko84asdbu7fjjce8rgnvqavofd64{at}4ax.com...
> I worked with a former COBOL programmer who refused to use While in VB.
> Instead he would do a For loop and iterate for some number he imagined
> was higher than would ever be needed.   Guess what happened when he
> imagined wrong?
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:50:05 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>  wrote in message :
>
> >
> >> It reminds me of that classic programming joke:
> >>
> >>   A really great programmer can write Fortran code
> >>   in *any* language.
> >
> > or Cobol... ;-)
>

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