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You know you have been programming in C# too long ....

.... when you are writing a business memo and you end all your sentences
with semi-colons;

.... when your friendly mechanic asks you what is wrong with your car
and you hand him a Use Case;

.... when your girlfriend tries to talk to you about a problem she is
having and you offer your 'helpful' advice using UML notation;

Nov 17 '05 #1
4 906


... you
{
Structure(Conversation.Sentence);
}

... someone mentions Visual Basic and you wake up in ripped clothes four hours later.

... someone asks you how much sleep you got last night and you give the answer in
milliseconds.

... you get into three hour long OOP vs. Proc. debates.

... With yourself.
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Nov 17 '05 #2
....you think 'foreach' is a word, and one of the most useful words you've
learned lately.
Nov 17 '05 #3
catch( AnnoyedSpouseException ) { }
... when you are writing a business memo and you end all your sentences
with semi-colons;

... when your friendly mechanic asks you what is wrong with your car
and you hand him a Use Case;

... when your girlfriend tries to talk to you about a problem she is
having and you offer your 'helpful' advice using UML notation;

Nov 17 '05 #4
Michael A. Covington wrote:
...you think 'foreach' is a word, and one of the most useful words
you've learned lately.


Well, after many years of Basic, I now find it very difficult to spell
"Go to" as two words.
--
Truth,
James Curran [erstwhile-MVP]
Home: www.noveltheory.com Work: www.njtheater.com
Blog: www.honestillusion.com Day Job: www.partsearch.com
Nov 17 '05 #5

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