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From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <592@unisv.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 00:36:20 GMT
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Reply-To: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
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One of my favorites is the story of the CS 101 student who kept
pestering a graduate student for help on a FORTRAN program with 
numerous syntax errors.  Finally the graduate student told him
that all he needed to do was use FORTRAN's automatic correction
feature:  Just place a "C" in column 1, and the compiler would
automatically correct the statement!

Sure enough, after several passes, the hapless CS 101 student
got a clean compile.  The program didn't do a whole lot, of course.
-- 
Mike Van Pelt           Unisys, Silicon Valley            vanpelt@unisv.UUCP
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