25 Oct
2002
25 Oct
'02
2:10 a.m.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 blstuart(a)bellsouth.net wrote:
One summer when I was teaching a summer course for
some students
in the 12-14 year old range. One of the students asked a question
where I needed a dummy variable. So for illustration, I naturally
named it dummy. A day or so later the program director approached
me very concerned because the student had reported that I had called
him a dummy.
Hmm, it seems he really was ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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