On 7/19/24 13:08, Phil Smith III wrote:
...
While working helpdesk, someone I know was brought a FORTRAN program with a problem.
While looking at it, something kept bothering him; finally he figured it out: the first
word of EVERY comment started with "C", so the comments just looked like text.
Weird!
.
I don't recall that I ever thought of that. Ir I had
I probably would have done it.
I will confess to, in JCL:
//COMMENT DD *
This
is just
a block
comment!
/*
There's a legend of someone who fooled a pedantic
style checker with
BNZ *+8
LA R1,1 (whatever)
*+8 EQU * (Suppress warning!)
And I've mixed C and assembler with such as:
/*
I DC F'0'
*/ int I; /*
...
--
gil
