Re: The horse race

Mark Johnson wrote:
> "Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> wrote:
>
> >Mark Johnson wrote:
> >> "Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> wrote:
>
> >> >Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> >> >Sorry to butt in, but I have just been read this and another related
> >> >thread for the first time, and it is getting bizarre. Mark, are you
> >> >asking Marshall to attempt to count a collection of some kind (punch
> >> >cards, lines of code, whatever) when they are not in their correct
> >> >order? And are you implying that he won't be able to do it?
>
> >> I'm pretty sure. Some of those punch card programs ran hundreds of
> >> cards. As cliched as the joke is, I'm sure one or more people dropped
> >> their boxes of cards on the way to the old central computer card
> >> readers. It's a lot to resort, if, assuming if, the cards were not
> >> otherwise numbered in order.
>
> >But the key word here was COUNT. You are saying that items have to be
> >"in order" to be able to COUNT them?
>
> You just said that. That's not even barely implied in anything you
> quoted. The issue was whether or not data, in this case a set of
> punched cards, were in their proper order, and therefore useful.

Ah, you are indeed a troll. Goodbye. Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 12:44:18 CET