Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan Message-ID: <642@umd5.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 21:53:00 EDT Article-I.D.: umd5.642 Posted: Mon Jul 8 21:53:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:39:34 EDT References: <714@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <243@ttrdc.UUCP> <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> <894@loral.UUCP> Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) Distribution: net Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 18 Summary: More funny fortran We had a homebrew fortran compiler named RALPH here years ago. Reentrant Algorithmic Language Processor or something. It did Fortran and Mad and even let you change back and forth between languages IN THE SAME PROGRAM using an ENTER RALPH and ENTER MAD statement. It had more bells and whistles. If you got more than 50 diagnostics in a program it printed out a picture of Alfred E. Neuman with a funny message (What me worry, but your program you should be worried about...) To this day it announces on the first line of its listing the birthdays of all its authors, plus other dates of interest (Joan of Arc burned at the stake today, 1088), etc. It also had a dirty word filter. It would not let you say "GOTO HELL" or anything like that. But, one day it bit us. We had a *very* irate professor of Poultry Science who was trying to get a program working, and he just could not understand why it let him have an array called HEN, but not one called COCK... -- Ben Cranston ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben zben@umd2.ARPA