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From: raymond@leda (Raymond Man)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: computer folklore
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Date: 3 Apr 89 07:31:37 GMT
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	My colleage was using this FORTRAN program and
modified it by just adding a several line long DATA
statement. And the program quit working right. There
was no compilation error and the old version of the
program was all right. All the guru in the computer
centre could not help him. He was tearing his hair
out for 3 weeks and about ready to quit when he
finally had the system manager, an old lady from 
a different era, go through the manual page by
page with him. At last, a footnote in small
print cautioned what he should not but in fact did
in his program: "DON'T USE 0 AS THE CONTINUATION
CHARACTER FOR MULTI-LINE STATEMENT"
Just call me `Man'.
raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu