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6 Sep 2024 19:20:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A quick straw poll  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 22 Dec 2008 17:27:57
Message: <4950146d$1@news.povray.org>

> OK, so here's a few short questions... I guess asking here is going to 
> generate slightly skewed results, but here goes.
> 
> 1. Do you consider yourself a "programmer"? (I.e., are you comfortable 
> firing up an editor and writing a little code if the need arises?)
> 

If you include the most basic shell scripts, batch files, or excel 
formulas, then yes.  Haven't used a real compiler since 1996.

> 2. Have you ever heard of a "coroutine"?
> 

No.

> 3. Do you know what a coroutine actually *is*? (Rather than just having 
> heard the term before.)
> 

Objection, Your Honour.  Already answered.

> 4. Do you know what "existential quantification" means?
> 

I have no idea what you are talking about, so here's a bunny with a 
pancake on its head.

> 5. There is an optional extension to the Haskell programming language 
> called ExistentialQuantification. Can you guess what it does?

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