RE: [PHP] Re: concatenating with "." or ","

On 28 August 2008 16:40, tedd advised:


I'm really not that old, I wrote my first line of code in college in
1965 -- I even remember the problem. It was how long a swimming pool
would take to drain to a trickle with the drain open and a garden
hose filling it. Of course, we were given all the data to solve it,
but it was more an adventure in keypunching than programming.

Considering that I never took a deferment for college, I was drafted
in 1966. I didn't even know what Vietnam was -- at the time.

Ha! You beat me by about 10 years, then -- in 1966, I was a "strange
English kid" attending 4th grade at a School in Santa Monica, CA. (My
dad was in a group of engineers seconded to his company's Los Angeles
parent for a year, and the company paid for families to go too, lucky us
;) Lots of memories and odd stories -- I think my favourite is one my
dad told for many years afterwards about his first few days in the
drawing office where they worked mainly in pencil, and the shock on the
face of the prim elderly secretary when he raised his head and asked, in
all innocence, if anybody had "a rubber"!!! And one complete non-memory
-- as I was in the US for the summer of 1966, I had no idea the England
football team had won the world cup until long after we returned to the
UK in 1967.

And I'm convinced that a year's acclimatization to California climate,
conflicting with native British reflexes, accounts for my body's strange
reaction to exactly 68 degrees Fahrenheit!!!!

Cheers!

Mike

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