Computers for children

From: Miles O'Neal <meo_at_netads.com>
Date: Fri Jan 15 04:20:02 1999

Marvin said...
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|I'm not sure if Fortran treats jumping out of a loop the same as C or not,
|but when I was taking Fortran in college, I wrote a program for shuffling
|and dealing out pseudo random bridge hamds. When writing it, for whatever
|reason I jumped out of a For/Next loop. For some reason the program
|crashed. I didn't know you couldn't do that and finally after stumping the
|instructors, one of them took the time to again review the code and found
|that "minor" glitch. Ah, the fun of learning!

You have always been able to jump out of a DO loop in FORTRAN.

-Miles
Received on Fri Jan 15 1999 - 04:20:02 GMT

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