Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihlts!lied From: lied@ihlts.UUCP (Bob Lied) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: new words Message-ID: <633@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 18:51:28 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.633 Posted: Tue Mar 19 18:51:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Mar-85 03:16:58 EST References: <4800002@umn-cs.UUCP> <441@terak.UUCP> <435@x.UUCP> <464@scc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12 Well, from Webster's New Collegiate, 1980: initialize: to set (as a computer program counter) to a starting position or value -- initialization Damn language slips right out from under you sometimes. Bob Lied ihnp4!ihlts!lied "The fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the superficial design flaws."