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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Program Errors and developement environment
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Date: 9 Mar 89 12:07:11 GMT
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My favourite of the "Oh, look, it's commented out" problems is the following
one I ran into in a 1st year's PASCAL program many years ago; it had to print
out a pattern of stars, or somesuch:

PROGRAM ....
   ...
   FOR i := 1 TO 50 DO Write(*);
   ...
   ...lots more code...
   ...
   FOR i := 1 TO 50 DO Write(*);
   ...
END.

The program was perfectly legal; the student couldn't understand why on earth
large chunks of his program were being mysteriously ignored.

		Nick.
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick
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...while the builders of the cages sleep with bullets, bars and stone,
they do not see your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone.