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From: smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Subject: Re: call by value, again
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 23:22:54 GMT
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blume@dynamic.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) writes:

> 
> [I still feel like weeping... seriously.]
> 
> Regards,
> --
> -Matthias

Howdy,
        Yes. This is a truly pathetic issue to have
to address - "How does call by value work" - here in
comp.lang.scheme, or any other newsgroup, for that
matter.
        Computers are not toys. Folks that cannot
go and read some basic computer languages textbook
and understand it should not program computers. I
increasingly feel that they should not be _allowed_
to program computers, and that some sort of
certification should be required (and I'm a pretty
free wheeling long hair kind of guy).
        In recent memory, an MIS manager at a large
govt. agency recently declared that local variables
with the same name must be "the same" variable and
therefore must all be global.  Ha ha, ho ho. I can't
believe these people have jobs at all. Heaven help
us all.
        Anyway, I'd strongly recommend the following.
Until one has at least a basic, first order picture
of what a simple assembler sequence looks like for
various parameter passing/variable binding
disciplines, one should keep one's mouth shut and
hit the textbooks.
        Mr. Blume, I commend you for your valiant
and patient efforts.

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Scott McLoughlin
Conscious Computing
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