I didn’t bother reading Mitch Ratcliffe’s interview with Netzeitung, because I doubted that Mitch and his interviewer used much of the vocabulary with which I’m most familiar: words like “covenant,” “form criticism,” “ “justification.” Mitch has posted the interview in English, now, and it clarifies the brouhaha helpfully.
Posted by AKMA at October 19, 2002 11:01 AM | TrackBackBeing able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Ellis at January 13, 2004 08:22 AMThe most basic duality that exists with variables is how the programmer sees them in a totally different way than the computer does. When you're typing away in Project Builder, your variables are normal words smashed together, like software titles from the 80s. You deal with them on this level, moving them around and passing them back and forth.
Posted by: Emery at January 13, 2004 08:22 AMWhen a variable is finished with it's work, it does not go into retirement, and it is never mentioned again. Variables simply cease to exist, and the thirty-two bits of data that they held is released, so that some other variable may later use them.
Posted by: Dorothy at January 13, 2004 08:22 AM