What the hell?

Found this on Squeaky Wheel Seeks Grease, and decided it looked like fun:

Here are the rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

There shall be no tagging because tag is an offensive, oppressive game used by the white man to keep the black woman down. Even so, I'll participate in the other four... and, to bring it home, seeing as I'm sitting at work, I'll use "UML and the Unified Process", which just happens to be the closest book sitting to me.

Prepare to be regaled with the most boring passages in your natural-born life!

However, it is class scope - this means that there is only one copy, and this single copy is only initialized once. Exactly when that happens is implementation language dependent but, as far as we are concerned, all we have to know is that it initialized to the value zero when the program started.

Suppose that in the create() operation you invoke the class scope operation IncrementCount().

Oh yes! There are pages and pages of that, all in that book, and I had to read every single page of it during my senior year of college. Oh, what horribly good times those were! It was due, in no small part, to books of that ilk that I developed the appreciation for computer programming that I have today, which is a big reason why I don't, in fact, due programming as a full-time profession.

*sigh*... The memories.