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From: dont@tekig1.UUCP (Don Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Teaching students with GOTO - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 04:56:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 04:56:23 1984
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     When I was struggling on my own, trying to teach myself programming, I
was looked on favorably by the director of the department of the local
community college, where I could bum machine time after hours.  One evening
he explained how I could name my variables X1000, X1001, X1002, when I got
to a point where I couldn't think of a good name for something, or didn't
want to worry about it!  I think this was to answer my question about why
a particular style of naming might be chosen.
     Not to fear, I repented from this path of darkness, and journeyed to
study under the true practitioners of the craft.
Don Taylor