“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)
Concretionist over 5 years ago
“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)
cooganm Premium Member over 5 years ago
The more you talk of the RJ-17 form, the less you understand
Stephen Gilberg over 5 years ago
Was the form named after the “Over the Hedge” raccoon?