On 15 May 2012 12:22, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
On 2012-05-14, at 10:58, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
Reminds me of an April-fools article introducing "COME FROM" to the
language to ease debugging. In the end of that article they also
described "COME FROM ON ...". Hilarious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
http://www.fortran.com/come_from.html
FORTRAN "DO" is basically "COME FROM".
DO 10 I = 1, 10
...
10 FORMAT(1X,23HGUESS WHAT HAPPENS HERE)
Ah, Hollerith Strings. Brings a tear to my eye....
Yves
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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
