Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!saturn!venus!kjell From: kjell@venus.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post,,,4238760) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer follies Message-ID: <4892@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 19 Sep 88 17:59:44 GMT References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <57438@ti-csl.CSNET> <741@etive.ed.ac.uk> <492@sp7040.UUCP> <827@cernvax.UUCP> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: kjell@venus.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post) Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; CIS/CE Lines: 16 This happened to me when I was teaching data structures last spring: One of the students is debugging his Pascal program that is supposed to do some simple hashing. Suddenly the terminal gives up (they do that sometimes) so he moves to another one, logs in and starts up the debugger again. After a while he calls for help. - "I get this 'index out of range' all the time." - "Hm, [examines one of the variables] you haven't called the init procedure." - "Yes I have [and points to the previous terminal...]" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y F = F(Y F) ! Kjell Post, Dept of Comp & Info Sciences "This superamazing, clever thing" ! University of California, Santa Cruz -- G.J.Sussman ! Email: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu