Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan Message-ID: <894@loral.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 01:47:24 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.894 Posted: Thu Jul 4 01:47:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:49:21 EDT References: <714@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <243@ttrdc.UUCP> <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Distribution: net Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 28 In article <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> whizzo@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Hardy) writes: > >This reminds me of a Fortran compiler I used to use years ago on a >XEROX 560 computer: If you did the following > > ASSIGN xx JAIL > GO TO JAIL > >In the compiler listing would be the following, right after the statement: > GO DIRECTLY. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS. > >Anyone else know of any hidden program 'features' such as this? >-- On the H.P. 2100 computer I once used, entering the command "WHY" to the operating system provoked the response: WHY NOT? [ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ] Ray Simard Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard ...Though we may sometimes disagree, You are still a friend to me!