Dragan,

Funny story - in my second programming course (JCL and Fortran IV) in college towards the end of the semester we where doing ISAM access to a dataset we'd created. Sometimes the instructor used animal names for variable names in the code fragment samples she wrote .. When I wrote this app I decided to take it to the extreme.. every variable name in my program was an animal name so the code looked like

       READ (HORSE,1100) COW, PIG, CHICKEN
1100   FORMAT ... 
       DUCK = MOOSE * COW - CHICKEN
       DO 10 CAT = DOG, DUCK, 1
C      WELL YOU GET THE IDEA... *G*

the code worked flawlessly but I only got a B on it, because she didn't think it was quite as funny as I did.

>I've done a bit of backtracking, trying to remember how many of these funny variable names are still in use. Only one (vrana, i.e. the crow), and that's for historical reasons.