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From: kjell@venus.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post,,,4238760)
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Subject: Re: computer follies
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Date: 19 Sep 88 17:59:44 GMT
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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...]"

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