[fpc-pascal] a few trivial questions

Juha Manninen juha.manninen at phnet.fi
Thu May 13 17:24:28 CEST 2010


Hi!

> Well, we once had a prof who counted from 0. After he had drewn a large
> diagram on the board he wanted to make sure that it was indeed 12 states
> as stated in the caption. So he went: 0, 1, 2, ... , 11. Hmmm... I've
> seem to have missed one. Let's count again: 0, 1, 2 , .... 11
> 
> He really couldn't figure out what was wrong until somebody pointed him
> out that he should start counting at 1. That was really hilarious,

I was thinking he must be a geek programmer but no, a programmer would 
understand the high bound is 12 - 1 = 11.

Programmer count from 0 by nature. That's what separates programmers from 
normal people.

:-)   <-- (Could not resist writing this comment, sorry)

Juha



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