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- From: dmandl@shearson.com (David Mandl)
- Subject: Re: Zimmermann's responses to Sidelnikov's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154035.20835@shearson.com>
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- Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan21.143916.22207@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:40:35 GMT
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- In article 22207@colnet.cmhnet.org, res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:
-
- >Actually, among the oddities I find delightful (and scary) about fortran
- >is the fact that
- >
- > DO 10 I=1,5
- >
- >and
- >
- > DO 10 I=1.5
- >
- >are both valid, but do entirely different things.
-
- If I remember correctly, it was an error exactly like this that
- blew up a U.S. rocket (complete with astronauts) back in the '70s.
- One of the programmers used a comma instead of a period, or vice
- versa, and no one caught it. The story was related in the C.P.S.R.
- paper that argued against the "Star Wars" boondoggle. The paper
- even included the original line of code.
-
- --Dave.
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