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Greg,

The program was a 10-line COBOL program and I was guessing the name would not get though the Code Review. I was surprised when my co-workers told me it was a good line of code, even when I pointed it out in the review. The lines above it were summarizing other parts of the employees labor record so it was easy to understand what the last item was.

-Jim

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I read all those books twice. Great books. Anyway im sure your guilty of reading harry potter or lotr several times.

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I couldn't agree more!

Programming in C is going to be so much more useful than PBASIC. How many industries program in PBASIC? Any? Even if there are some, I can bet that there is barely a fraction of as many as do C/C++. I was totally heartbroken when I heard that the AP cirriculum switched to Java too. That is such a disservice to the Computer Sciences students. C/C++ will remain the industry standard for many years to come.

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I disagree. 90% of computer science/computer engineering is about learning how to design and architect software, independent of a language. This is a primary difference between learning comp sci in high school/college versus goofing around at home and teaching yourself how to program. At home, you're likely to learn how to write code in one particular language well, but you're less likely to learn how to properly design software.

A good computer scientist/computer engineer should be able to adapt to any programming language in an extremely short amount of time.

Besides, Java and C++ are very similar anyway.

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Well, they're similar in syntax, but not in ideology. But I suppose that's another discussion for another thread.

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AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Java! The work of the devil. No pointers! Everything... so much harder when the headache-inducers are removed. (That kids, is what you call a paradox)

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7 times. Each.

Working on second time.

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In the litany of occurrences of 42, I don't think the number of facets on a Rubik's cube was mentioned. Six faces to a cube. Nine facets to a face. 42 facets.

BTW. Speaking of Rubik's cubes. If you had a computer capable of examining a million different configurations of the cube per second, how long would it take the computer to examine every possible configuration, and thus see the one correct configuration? This, of course, presumes there is not an orientable decal on each facet, which would result in just a few more possible configurations.