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sambeau on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Signs that you are a bad programmer

What is the proper name for the bit of code that's currently being executed?

I would have used 'Cursor' or 'Program Cursor'. But I'm now convincing myself that that a database term.

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