[NTLUG:Discuss] Java/Linux versus school teacher.
Rusty Haddock
rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org
Mon Mar 19 13:06:41 CDT 2007
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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