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From: Invisible
Subject: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 07:52:07
Message: <494f8d77$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?)

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?


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From: scott
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 07:55:11
Message: <494f8e2f@news.povray.org>
Yes, no no no no.


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From: Gail
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 08:06:01
Message: <494f90b9@news.povray.org>
"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message news:494f8e2f@news.povray.org...
> Yes, no no no no.
>

+1


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 08:25:41
Message: <494f9555$1@news.povray.org>
>> Yes, no no no no.
> 
> +1

Hmm... exactly as I expected, then...


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From: Mueen Nawaz
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 12:24:03
Message: <494fcd33$1@news.povray.org>
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?)

Yes.

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

	Might have. But don't have a clue what it is.

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

	See above.

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

	Nope.

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

	Nope.

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: A quick straw poll
Date: 22 Dec 2008 12:46:12
Message: <494fd264$1@news.povray.org>
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?)

Yes.

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

Yes.

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

Yes.  (The programming language Icon uses coroutines for, like, everything.)

> 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?

Yes, because you've described it. I would have guessed it did existential 
quantification.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.


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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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