Tonight Trevor and Susan joined Margaret, Pip, Si, Jennifer and me for a night out at Lucky Platter to celebrate the Disseminary funding. (not on the Wabash Center’s tab, I assure everyone.)
We had a delightful time, gabbing and trading history, and arguing theological points, until the server sized up the group and handed the check to me, the guy with gray hair, so now I feel as though I must look like father to all of them.
Then we headed back to Trevor’s office where he showed off his stationery collection, and I retrieved my file of old stationery, comic strips that appeared while I was teaching college ten years ago (remember when Mark Slackmeyer realized he was gay, in Doonesbury?), and little family publications that the boys put out as part of their home schooling. I woin’t utterly alienate my children by quoting them, but we quaffed and laughed and watched Hi-Ho animations like this, this, this, and this.
Now it’s late, I’m groggy from the sips of sherry at Trevor’office, and I have to get up early tomorrow to go to class. Nothing more profound tonight than the joy of good friendships.
Posted by AKMA at January 30, 2003 11:44 PM | TrackBackThis code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?
Posted by: Michael at January 13, 2004 04:11 AMThis code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?
Posted by: Brian at January 13, 2004 04:11 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: Lawrence at January 13, 2004 04:11 AMSince the Heap has no definite rules as to where it will create space for you, there must be some way of figuring out where your new space is. And the answer is, simply enough, addressing. When you create new space in the heap to hold your data, you get back an address that tells you where your new space is, so your bits can move in. This address is called a Pointer, and it's really just a hexadecimal number that points to a location in the heap. Since it's really just a number, it can be stored quite nicely into a variable.
Posted by: Helen at January 13, 2004 09:50 AM