Dijkstra's Passeer & verhoog

[Leo de Wit]

In article <173 at dx7.UUCP> marcel at dx7.UUCP (Marcel Bernards) writes:
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| In article <702 at oracle.oracle.com>, sbulchan at oracle.uucp (Sanjay Bulchandani) writes:
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|	 P is short for pakken (seize).
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|	 V is short for vrygeven (release).
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|I always assumed that P stand for Passeer (pass) and V stands for Verhoog 
|(increase), according Prof. Dykstra's theory. (same two dots for Dykstra ;-)

That's funny; the way I learned it: P for Passeren (to pass) and V for
Vrijgeven (to release, to free). If I'm correct the terms stem from the
railway jargon, where semaphores are used too.

The best explanation I ever saw (although I won't claim it is the
correct one), was:

              Passeren
              Semafoor
              Vrijgeven

that is, the initials of a famous Eindhoven football club (that's soccer,
for you American types) 8-).

    Leo.