I have a new habit that I enjoy, even though I am certain it is getting on the nerves of my colleagues.
Whenever I find a bug in a piece of logic I've written -- whenever I find I've used || instead of && or left out a !, I shake my fist at the sky and shout, at the top of lungs, "Damn you George Boole!"
Try it. Very therapeutic.
(actually I kind of whisper it under my breath most of the time)
'Peter McArthur' on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:30:14 GMT, sez:
Didn't Arthur Conan Doyle take Boole as an inspiration for the character of Moriarty? "What if George Boole was an *evil* genius?" That sort of thing.