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From: kenyon@nmtvax.UUCP (Rob Kenyon -A stranger in a stranger land)
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Subject: Re: GAMEBRAINS trivia.
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 09:40:31 EST
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In article <> miller@loral.UUCP (David P. Miller) writes:
>	
>        5.  What was the world's costliest program error ?.
>
>   I believe that the mistake was not a missing hyphen, but a period which
>should have been a comma.  It was in the FORTRAN statement similar to:
>
>   DO 10 I=1.3    => should have been     DO 10 I=1,3
>John. 
>
>Question: Is John Van Zandt correct, or is GAMEBRAINS tm. right ?.
>
I have heard from multiple sources that it was the old "period for
a comma" trick.  Too bad $18M was lost because someone fell for it.

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