Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'compiler': 0.05; 'source.': 0.05; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'aug': 0.13; 'division.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:user': 0.16; 'later': 0.16; 'mon,': 0.16; 'bit': 0.21; 'posted': 0.22; 'errors': 0.23; 'least': 0.25; 'wrote': 0.26; 'forgot': 0.27; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'record': 0.28; '350': 0.29; 'file': 0.32; 'room': 0.32; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'received:org': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'listing': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'object': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'procedure': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'personal': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'cobol': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'girl': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.91; 'rusi': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:27:16 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <506eb405-eb07-4175-9efb-40475cabacf1@googlegroups.com> <65361ea4-9740-49b1-93cc-29573ac8c27a@r2g2000pbn.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-218-58.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1344356852 news.xs4all.nl 6902 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:42530 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26727 On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:52:42 -0700 (PDT), rusi declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > On a more personal note, the first program I wrote was in Cobol. I > got only 350 errors before the compiler copped out. It was a bit > traumatic. Later on I found I forgot to write > PROCEDURE DIVISION. > At least you didn't do what some girl did at my college... The compiler listing got posted outside the computer room as a record for compiler errors... She'd fed the OBJECT file to the COBOL compiler as the source. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/