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From: carolp@hpvcla.UUCP (carolp)
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Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 06:18:00 1985
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>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?
>                      Dave Hardy    (whizzo@mit-eddie)
My high school had a home-brew compiler that when confronted with
      
       GO TO HELL;

would generate a *syntax error*

       I DON'T LIKE THAT LANGUAGE!

and stop compiling.

Carol Peterman  (hplabs!hp-pcd!hpvcla!carolp)