[NTLUG:Discuss] Java/Linux versus school teacher.

[Rusty Haddock]

steve wrote:
    >Rusty Haddock wrote:
    >> I would have gotten a 100% but I had forgotten
    >> to slash my zeroes in two answers (as I had done with the rest of my
    >> answers).  :-(
    >
    >You should have claimed that you were an early IBM developer...

At 18?  In the 70's?  I don't think so.  I s'pose I could have been
an early (IBM developer) as opposed to an (early IBM) developer. :-)
Alas, I haven't been a 'BM'er... yet.

    >or Scandinavian!

With brown hair and brown eyes?  I don't think so either. :-)
I can talk 'vid un Swveedish ahkcent' but that's as far as I can go.

    >On early IBM hardware, the Oh's are slashed and zeroes are not!!
    >(yep - IBM weren't happy with mere EBCIDIC confusions).
    >
    >In Scandinavian languages Oh-with-a-slash is a character of their
    >standard alphabet - so Finnish programmers don't slash their zeroes.
    >But hold on!  We're Linux users!  I bet Linus doesn't slash his zeroes.

Depends on which font he's using, doesn't it??? :-)

    >According to Wikipedia there have been a bunch of odd-ball conventions
    >before the modern one became prominent.
    >
    >You deserved 100%!  :-)

Well, yeah! :-) Alas, I was inconsistent with my zeroes, and thusly "not
perfect" and I couldn't switch nationalities nor future employers between
answers in an exam.  Still, I was mostly happy with my 96% and that this
lowly 1st semester freshman corrected an answer key in 5-6 places. :-)

	-Rusty-
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