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From: hathawa2@marshall.edu (Mark S. Hathaway)
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> In article <3c1oj4$h3s@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>,
> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Regarding the famous DO loop bug (the Venus probe I think if I remember right)
> there is a nice addition to this story.
> 
> IBM issued an APAR against Fortran IV under IBSYS on the 7094 that said
> something like:
> 
>    DO 10 I = 1.5
> 
> is misclassified and treated as an assignment statement. This will be
> corrected in a fututure release.
> 
> Needsless to say, this was NOT corrected in a future release, and I would
> guess that the APAR is still open :-)

In the world of music it is said that the silence between the notes is an
integral part of the music.  Apparently the language parser should recognize
the blanks between "key words" as relevant.

 
Mark S. Hathaway       <hathawa2@marshall.edu>