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From: gmack@denelvx.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Showing Off (Athletics VS Intell
Message-ID: <96@denelvx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:33:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 02:33:42 1985
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> In article <33100024@ISM780.UUCP> darryl@ISM780.UUCP writes:
> >"What do you do?"
> >    "I write compilers."  nobody outside the industry knows what that is...
> >	-- or --
> >    "I am a computer programmer."

Or, how about, "I'm an international terrorist."

>                                     How about this instead:
> 
>      "What do you do?"
> 
>      "I write computer programs."
> 
>      "Oh, what kind of programs?"
> 
>      "Compilers; they're programs that interpret computer languages and
>       translate them into instructions for the computer's electronic
>       circuits."

       "Compilers; they take your program and usually make a pile
        out of it." :-)

>                             -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly

Later & Greater,
Gregg Mackenzie
denelcor!gmack