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Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming

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In article <MPG.31a0fc8329bb357898a194@news.eternal-september.org>, J.
Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

>In article <d2ed95f3-8320-42cb-baf2-50a9f7e80ee2@googlegroups.com>, 
>tno@thenewobjective.com says...

>> > And NASA lost a mission to Venus because Fortran isn't upset by
>> > certain simple and difficult to spot typing errors.
>
>What typing errors would those be?  Fortran gets upset by just about 
>anything.  The accounts of a "missing hyphen" don't make any sense--
>there is no "hyphen" in Fortran that has any significance other than as 
>a character in comment statements and text output.

I haven't used fortran since 1978, but back then you could use
variables without declaring them - implicit types based on the initial
letter. Easy enough to misspell a variable.

For hyphen, possibly read "minus sign".

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Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-05 06:55 -0800
  Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming 4ndre4 <4ndre4@4ndre4.com.invalid> - 2016-02-05 18:56 +0000
  Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Tim Slattery <tim@risingdove.com> - 2016-02-05 14:07 -0500
  Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-02-05 17:34 -0300
    Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 19:10 -0800
      Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming 4ndre4 <4ndre4@4ndre4.com.invalid> - 2016-02-06 08:33 +0000
        Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-06 08:24 -0800
          Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming 4ndre4 <4ndre4@4ndre4.com.invalid> - 2016-02-06 18:48 +0000
            Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-06 12:28 -0800
              Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming 4ndre4 <4ndre4@4ndre4.com.invalid> - 2016-02-06 21:01 +0000
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 15:23 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-02-08 11:45 -0300
            Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-02-08 13:39 -0800
              Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-11 08:09 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-02-11 12:22 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-02-12 11:09 +0000
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-02-12 13:34 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-02-13 14:40 +0000
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-02-14 10:18 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-14 21:27 +0100
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-14 10:13 -0400
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-05-14 16:47 +0100
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-15 07:05 -0400
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-14 10:08 -0700
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-15 07:02 -0400
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-15 13:11 -0700
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-05-15 17:03 +0100
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-15 13:20 -0700
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-16 11:55 -0700
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-05-16 21:39 +0200
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-17 07:30 -0700
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-05-17 15:34 +0100
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 17:50 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-02-14 11:15 +0000
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-02-14 11:03 -0800
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-02-15 20:18 +0000
                Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 16:54 -0800
  Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 15:00 -0800
  Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2016-02-06 17:18 +1000
    Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-06 16:01 +0100
    Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-07 04:47 -0800
      Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-02-07 13:16 +0000
      Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-02-07 17:29 +0000
        Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-08 08:53 -0800
          Re: Newbie trying to understand object oriented programming Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-02-08 17:33 +0000
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