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From: andrel
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 13:17:08
Message: <494FDA02.2080303@hotmail.com>
On 22-Dec-08 13:52, Invisible wrote:
> 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?)
> 
> 2. Have you ever heard of a "coroutine"?
> 
> 3. Do you know what a coroutine actually *is*? (Rather than just having 
> heard the term before.)
> 
> 4. Do you know what "existential quantification" means?
> 
> 5. There is an optional extension to the Haskell programming language 
> called ExistentialQuantification. Can you guess what it does?
yes, yes, yes, yes, don't know (because to know if my guess is right I 
need to know what it does. This type of question can never be answered 
with either yes or no)


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 13:20:01
Message: <web.494fd9cff0bdaac8180057960@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

Yes to all, except for "existential quantification"... until some wikking
later... :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_quantification

Oh, I learned about it in predicate logic, just forgot. :P


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 13:25:00
Message: <web.494fda9ef0bdaac8569d0e9f0@news.povray.org>
definitely / maybe / not really / no idea / well, I'd guess it does existential
quantification, what else :)


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 14:35:43
Message: <494FEB53.1040301@none.none>
Invisible wrote:

> 
> 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?)

I do not consider myself a programmer, but I am "comfortable firing up 
an editor and ..."

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

Not sure. Sounds vaguely familiar and so does the definition now that I 
have looked it up.

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

No

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

Yes

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

I can guess.
some optimized condition|condition|condition ??

  -Shay


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From: Clarence1898
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 15:35:01
Message: <web.494ff93af0bdaac88b9825800@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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?)
>
> 2. Have you ever heard of a "coroutine"?
>
> 3. Do you know what a coroutine actually *is*? (Rather than just having
> heard the term before.)
>
> 4. Do you know what "existential quantification" means?
>
> 5. There is an optional extension to the Haskell programming language
> called ExistentialQuantification. Can you guess what it does?

yes, no, no, no, no

Isaac.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 15:36:58
Message: <ciuvk4dm1ov8658b864tile9rtqfs3he1e@4ax.com>
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:52:03 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>OK, so here's a few short questions... 

OK then, no, no a thousand times no ;)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 16:11:27
Message: <4950027f@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:

> don't know (because to know if my guess is right I 
> need to know what it does. This type of question can never be answered 
> with either yes or no)

Hmm... good point! I should have phrased that one differently...

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 16:12:42
Message: <495002ca@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:

> Oh, I learned about it in predicate logic, just forgot. :P

Wait... you *learned* predicate logic?

Like, in a *class*?? o_O

Damn... Sometimes I forget just how incomplete my own education was...

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From: andrel
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 16:56:44
Message: <49500D79.4020600@hotmail.com>
On 22-Dec-08 21:36, Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:52:03 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>> OK, so here's a few short questions... 
> 
> OK then, no, no a thousand times no ;)


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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
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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