From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,1d321b3a6b8bcab2
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-17 06:11:42 PST
Path: 
 nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!news.oleane.net!oleane!pipex!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!ncohen
From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: "Subtract C, add Ada"
Date: 17 Jan 1995 14:11:42 GMT
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fgj6u$1fn0@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>
References: <3f4mbe$rud@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>
 <D2It0r.4rp@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: rios8.watson.ibm.com
Date: 1995-01-17T14:11:42+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Just yesterday I made a one-character typo in a C program (don't ask; it
puts food on the table) that preserved the legality of the program but
rather radically altered its behavior.  I meant to type

   for (i=0; i<10; i++)

but my finger slipped off the shift key when I was typing "<", so it came
out

   for (i=0; i,10; i++)

which tests for loop termination by evaluating i, discarding that value,
evaluating 10, and leaving the loop when 10 equals zero (i.e., never).

What a language!

--
Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com