Re: COBOL "non-myth" confirmed - Index and subscripts (MF on Windows)



<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fcliei$57t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <7jlre31oq6blvdmk49jl2974tctunhkr43@xxxxxxx>,
Robert <no@xxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

I spent years trying to prove that 2 is not the optimal division factor.
Based on
calculus, I really believed it was e - 1, which is approximately 1.7. I
almost 'proved'
it with tests. Years later I saw that 2 really IS the optimal division
factor. On well, I
tried.

'I try to make my words good 'n tender 'cause I might have to eat them
tomorrow' might be seen as a variation of 'Looking back and saying 'Oh,
that was but the folly of a decade past' might cause one to recall that
what one does, now, may be looked at, at some point... as the folly of a
decade past'.

(the second one is a memory-mangling of Nietzsche, I cannot recall the
original nor the source)


I've always thought that "Keep your words soft and sweet, for you may have
to eat them" was a Chinese proverb. But I can't cite and I haven't GOOGLEd,
so I could be wrong.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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