This is second hand but from a very reliable source. One day, in the office that does the maintenance programming for the network at my old employer, was heard the following from a systems programmer. shortly after I transferred: ("Old," in this context, means "someone who had been there for a couple of years."):
Old Programmer: Are you going to use A.S.C.2 [sic, phonetically] in your update? New Programmer: I beg your pardon? OP: You know, the A.S.C.2 table. NP: (thinking is some sort of special communications protocol) May I see a copy? OP: (scornfully) You should have learned this in your first programming class. (pulls open a printer manual and reveals the ASCII table) NP: Oh.
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This is second hand but from a very reliable source. One day, in the office that does the maintenance programming for the network at my old employer, was heard the following from a systems programmer. shortly after I transferred: ("Old," in this context, means "someone who had been there for a couple of years."):
Old Programmer: Are you going to use A.S.C.2 [sic, phonetically] in your update?
New Programmer: I beg your pardon?
OP: You know, the A.S.C.2 table.
NP: (thinking is some sort of special communications protocol) May I see a copy?
OP: (scornfully) You should have learned this in your first programming class. (pulls open a printer manual and reveals the ASCII table)
NP: Oh.