Dijkstra's Passeer & verhoog

[Marcel Bernards]

 In article <702 at oracle.oracle.com>, sbulchan at oracle.uucp (Sanjay Bulchandani) writes:
	 This is with reference to SureshK's question on semaphores.
	 
	 P is short for pakken (seize).
	 
	 V is short for vrygeven (release).
	 
	 The y in vrygeven should have  two-dots (an umlaut ?) above it.
	 
	 Sanjay
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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 ;-)

Am I right or not  ???


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