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On 1/16/2015 3:11 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:

2015-01-16 8:31 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner:


   -spc (That's about the only thing I remember about Fortran.  Oh wait, that
         and any character in column 1 marked a comment, otherwise, statments
         start in column 6 ... )


… and that

       DO 30 I=1.10

is a perfectly legal statement but does not do what you thought.
Interestingly, this particular kind of Fortran bug did not appear to have actually caused the thing it was widely blamed for in many Comp Sci books. 

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1

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