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In article 22207@colnet.cmhnet.org, res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:

>Actually, among the oddities I find delightful (and scary) about fortran
>is the fact that
>
>	DO 10 I=1,5
>
>and
>
>	DO 10 I=1.5
>
>are both valid, but do entirely different things.

If I remember correctly, it was an error exactly like this that
blew up a U.S. rocket (complete with astronauts) back in the '70s.
One of the programmers used a comma instead of a period, or vice
versa, and no one caught it.  The story was related in the C.P.S.R.
paper that argued against the "Star Wars" boondoggle.  The paper
even included the original line of code.

   --Dave.

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