Last fall, I heard that a friend had been given only a short time left to live. I preached a sermon on that news and on what he means to me, what the unwelcome news of his extreme illness meant, and some of you responded generously and sympathetically.
Sunday afternoon, Don Juel — a scholar, a friend, but above all an ardent and entirely-committed disciple of Jesus of Nazareth — relinquished mortal life. He was at home with his wife, and had spoken with his children recently on the phone.
Don and Lynda were true to us at a difficult point in our lives, when it was coming clear that we would not be able to stay in Princeton, that I was not going to be elevated to tenurable stature there. Don was a great teacher, particularly to our semi-foster daughter Jennifer. We cherish the memory of our Princeton friends’ sticking with us, and especially of Don’s unprepossessing candor about the whole business. It broke our hearts to leave Princeton, and leaving Don and Lynda made it that much harder.
We will pray for Don and for Lynda, and we ask that those of you who pray join us in giving thanks for all that Don meant to all the countless people whose lives he touched.
Rest eternal grant to him, O Lord;Posted by AKMA at February 25, 2003 10:39 PM | TrackBack
And let light perpetual shine upon him.
To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom,
The cavalry of woe.
Who win, and nations do not see,
Who fall, and none observe,
Whose dying eyes no country
Regards with patriot love.
We trust, in plumed procession,
For such the angels go,
Rank after rank, with even feet
And uniforms of snow.
-Emily Dickenson
Posted by: Jane at February 26, 2003 07:55 PMBut some variables are immortal. These variables are declared outside of blocks, outside of functions. Since they don't have a block to exist in they are called global variables (as opposed to local variables), because they exist in all blocks, everywhere, and they never go out of scope. Although powerful, these kinds of variables are generally frowned upon because they encourage bad program design.
Posted by: Watkin at January 12, 2004 07:07 PMA variable leads a simple life, full of activity but quite short (measured in nanoseconds, usually). It all begins when the program finds a variable declaration, and a variable is born into the world of the executing program. There are two possible places where the variable might live, but we will venture into that a little later.
Posted by: Basil at January 12, 2004 07:08 PMThese secret identities serve a variety of purposes, and they help us to understand how variables work. In this lesson, we'll be writing a little less code than we've done in previous articles, but we'll be taking a detailed look at how variables live and work.
Posted by: Gillam at January 12, 2004 07:08 PMThese secret identities serve a variety of purposes, and they help us to understand how variables work. In this lesson, we'll be writing a little less code than we've done in previous articles, but we'll be taking a detailed look at how variables live and work.
Posted by: Edi at January 13, 2004 10:05 AMThis will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of
Posted by: Emmanuel at January 13, 2004 10:05 AMBut some variables are immortal. These variables are declared outside of blocks, outside of functions. Since they don't have a block to exist in they are called global variables (as opposed to local variables), because they exist in all blocks, everywhere, and they never go out of scope. Although powerful, these kinds of variables are generally frowned upon because they encourage bad program design.
Posted by: Augustus at January 13, 2004 10:06 AM