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Re: Ghost object [message #21308 is a reply to message #21280]

Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00

Theo Brauers
Messages: 58
Registered: November 1997

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An engineer, a physicist, and a programmer are driving in a car
when it suddenly stops in the middle of nowhere. The engineer:
'Shoot, we ran out of gas!' The physicist: 'This is probably an
engine problem.' The programmer: 'Let's exit the car, we enter
again, and everything will be fine.'

Best Theo

David Fanning wrote:
>
> Pavel Romashkin (promashkin@cmdl.noaa.gov) writes:
>
>> My point, actually, was that I thought .Full_reset_session was pretty
>> much the same as starting over. I guess it is not in those cases when
>> IDL gets a little upset.
>
> Scene at a medium-sized computer software company. Tight
> shot of cubicle piled high with copies of PC World and
> Byte magazines. Our hero talks on the phone.
>
> Hero: Why don't you just exit IDL and try it again?
>
> Customer: I did start over. It always happens.
>
> Hero: Uh, huh. Well, just to humor me exit IDL and try it
> again.
>
> Customer: It won't make a difference.
>
> Hero: Uh, huh. But just to humor me. Please.
>
> Customer: Sigh...I already tried that, but here you go.
>
> (45 seconds of typing can be heard on the phone lines.)
>
> Customer: OK, I did that and it is still broken.
>
> Hero: You exited IDL!?
>
> Customer: Well, no. I thought .Reset_Session was the same thing.
>
> Hero (an audible hitch in his voice): Well, how about you
> just try exiting IDL and run it again.
>
> Customer: Oh, friggin hell! Alright, I exited IDL and .....
> Oh ... well, never mind.
>
> (Sound of phone being hung up.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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		Re: Ghost object By: promashkin on Thu, 17 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: promashkin on Thu, 17 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: promashkin on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: davidf on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: promashkin on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: Martin Schultz on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: davidf on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: Theo Brauers on Wed, 16 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: davidf on Tue, 15 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 15 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: promashkin on Tue, 15 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: promashkin on Tue, 15 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: davidf on Tue, 15 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Ghost object By: davidf on Tue, 15 August 2000 00:00

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