On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:41:25 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
declaimed the following:

>On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:32:09 -0000 (UTC)
>Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>
>> Full-stops mean stuff to a COBOL compiler!
>
> The largest output per bad byte of source I've ever seen came from
>a COBOL compiler absorbing the consequences of a missing full stop (IIRC
>after the word DIVISION). It got very confused and went on about it at great
>length.

 In my college days, we had a student who'd fed her object file back
into the compiler... That generated a wad of error output...


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