[ProgSoc] Thought for the day

jedd jedd at progsoc.org
Sat Nov 7 21:36:21 EST 2009


On Saturday 07 November 2009 07:51:13 Roland Turner wrote:
> I have in my hand a piece of wire. It is labelled "TONGBAO NETCONNECT 
> CAT.5e CABLE 4 PAIRS UTP 24AWG VERIFIED TO CAT5 COMMUNICATION CABLE". It 
> has conveyed much communication, perhaps some of it was stateful, 
> perhaps some of it was stateless. It can't remember.

 From what I have learned from ProgSoc today, I can advise:
 a)  the act of reading the cable was stateless,
 b)  transcribing that information to the list was stateful.

 Hmm .. unless I'm confusing the protocol with the nature
 of the data transported by same.

 Anyway, this is just another reason why I'm not a programmer.

 J.



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