[Haskell-cafe] Re: Endianess

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Wed May 14 14:59:00 EDT 2008


On Wed, 14 May 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

>
> On 2008 May 14, at 14:34, Dan Weston wrote:
>
>> So I've always wondered, if you are writing down a number being dictated 
>> (slowly) by someone else, like 234, do you write the 2, then leave space 
>> and write the 4, then go back and fill in with 3? Or do you push the 4 onto 
>> the stack until the 3 arrives, and write 34 at once.
>> 
>> If the latter, does this imply that Germans have a harder time with tail 
>> recursion?
>
>
> Stacking, surely:  recall the joke about the German professor who saved all 
> his verbs for the end of the lecture.  :)

Interesting to know what jokes are told about Germans. 8-] So, do English 
professors save their prepositions for the end of a lecture?


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