Re: Weird words

[Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

   Karen Murri wrote:

I worked on control system standards for a large food manufacturer. One of
the programmers had written a paragraph that used the word OR as a verb, as
in "OR the two sections of the program." He insisted that he couldn't think
of any better way to say it. He told me he often used AND as a verb, too. 

  

   "OR" and "AND" make perfect sense to anyone who has done programming
   or written about software.  They are Boolean concepts and in the
   example OR is an action to be taken on two section of the program,
   hence a verb.  They are always written in uppercase.  There might be a
   better way to write the sentence for clarity, but we don't know that
   because we were only exposed to a fragment.
   Al

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