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echo: nthelp
to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Ellen K.
date: 2003-06-25 09:32:00
subject: Re: XP stumped by a file in My Documents

From: Ellen K. 

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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