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From: "Antti Kurenniemi"
Some people are just too funny...
Antti Kurenniemi
(I really really hate it when some programmers make idiotic assumptions like that)
"Ellen K." wrote in message
news:6hjjfvko84asdbu7fjjce8rgnvqavofd64{at}4ax.com...
> I worked with a former COBOL programmer who refused to use While in VB.
> Instead he would do a For loop and iterate for some number he imagined
> was higher than would ever be needed. Guess what happened when he
> imagined wrong?
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:50:05 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
> wrote in message :
>
> >
> >> It reminds me of that classic programming joke:
> >>
> >> A really great programmer can write Fortran code
> >> in *any* language.
> >
> > or Cobol... ;-)
>
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