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| From | Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement |
| Date | 2012-08-31 16:03 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:20:09 +0100, Dr J R Stockton
<reply1235@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
[snip]
>Reminds me of a problem a colleague had on an HP "midi" computer, using
>FORTRAN but with a screen editor rather than a card punch.
>
>One of his long COMMON statements was not working correctly. All of the
>variables were in fact COMMONed, except one, at the end of the first
>line. He was baffled. We were baffled. It looked fine on the screen.
>
>Then I noticed that the offending variable and its comma were sitting
>neatly in columns 73 to 80.
If the statement looked fine for syntax, that is the first thing
that I would look at. I heard a lot of these stories, so I am
sensitised to the issue.
>Perhaps you remember 80-column FORTRAN cards, and what is printed on
>them? I keep one on my physical desktop for reference on occasions like
>this.
Quite.
In my computing diploma program, two course had COBOL. I was
very careful about my columns.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-29 13:55 -0500
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-29 22:20 +0200
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-29 20:02 -0500
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-08-29 18:27 -0700
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-30 12:37 +0200
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-08-30 14:24 +0100
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-30 15:59 +0200
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-08-30 16:26 +0100
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-30 17:47 +0200
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-01 11:40 +0100
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Dr J R Stockton <reply1235@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-09-02 19:54 +0100
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 11:17 -0500
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-30 10:25 -0700
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Dr J R Stockton <reply1235@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-08-31 23:20 +0100
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-31 16:03 -0700
Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-29 22:30 +0200
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