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From: bandy@lll-crg.ARPA (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Computer Bloopers
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 03:45:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 03:45:06 1985
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Keywords: I <skull&crossbones> Computer "Science"


> From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
> Subject: Computer Bloopers
> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
>		^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
> 
> [discussion of how everything, including constants was passed by value
>  in fortran, so if you modified a subr arg which was, say 0, and then
>  used a constant zero somewhere within the execution after that, that
>  it would REALLY be whatever the value was that you stuffed in in the
>  other place.]
> 
> Now, I can't figure out for the life of me how this might have worked, but if
> it did I think it's a definite classic.

See what good Computer "Science" does for you? Can you say Pascal? Can you
say Quiche?
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