Dale Miller kindly wrote: >> zMan on 15 June told about two clueless CS PhD's. A few years ago, my friend an I were getting a lot of chuckles out the cluelessness of a CS textbook, but we were reduced to uncontrollable laughter when the author showed an example of doing a payroll using an array, and concluded the exercise with the statement: "Of course, in the real world a file might consist of hundreds of records."
How many hundreds? 1, thousand, gazillion, 'uncountable many'[1]? :-D John Chase very kindly wrote: >What, you haven't seen small files on big computers before? :-) Be a nice sport and define for us 'small file'? ;-D Is it anything bigger than 8 bits (1 byte)? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I could not write the mathematical symbol 'lemniscate' (infinity) here... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
