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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 01:47:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 01:47:24 1985
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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
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...Though we may sometimes disagree,
   You are still a friend to me!