“Does not compute”: There’s an anecdote about an ancient Fortran program that failed when a particular value was 5. To fix this, the devil-driven programmer inserted this code:
IF VALUE == 5 THEN 5 = 6
(in those days, I’m told, FORTRAN integers were implemented as variables initialized with the appropriate values)
“Does not compute”: There’s an anecdote about an ancient Fortran program that failed when a particular value was 5. To fix this, the devil-driven programmer inserted this code:
IF VALUE == 5 THEN 5 = 6
(in those days, I’m told, FORTRAN integers were implemented as variables initialized with the appropriate values)