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    We discovered that the PCW compiler has a very odd syntax...

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      Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
      Don't you just love learning the foibles of compilers?
      Circa 1986. Software house. Works Xmas do. One of the most hardened boozers turned up two hours late. He came running in yelling and carrying listing paper.

      "I was right! There IS a bug in the compiler!"

      He had spent all day and half the evening writing test cases to prove the ICL ME29 Range COBOL compiler had a bug. He was seriously happy.

      The booze-up degenerated into everyone poring over his listings and debating his diagnostic technique.

      Aah. Happy days.
      Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

      Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard points

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        Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
        How do you know?
        Saw such a thing in a film once...

        And that's ignoring the likes of the ****ingmachines machines and the symbian...

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          Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
          #82728
          zeitghost
          More fingers than

          pali
          Eye thank ewe...

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            Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
            Have they discovered that the best way to get a pass is bribery?
            There's unfortunately absoluckingfutely no point in bribing me since I don't mark their projects...

            Ho hum...

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              Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
              sometimes I wonder why I don't have a life
              But I thought TPD was your life?
              Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

              Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard points

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                Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
                Circa 1986. Software house. Works Xmas do. One of the most hardened boozers turned up two hours late. He came running in yelling and carrying listing paper.

                "I was right! There IS a bug in the compiler!"

                He had spent all day and half the evening writing test cases to prove the ICL ME29 Range COBOL compiler had a bug. He was seriously happy.

                The booze-up degenerated into everyone poring over his listings and debating his diagnostic technique.

                Aah. Happy days.
                One of my more "unusual" constructions in FORTRAN killed the M$ FORTRAN 77 compiler stone dead... tits up it went, please tell M$ etc.

                Program compiled perfectly well on the G.A. FORTRAN IV compiler.

                I was not impressed.

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                  Time for a dip in the bath...

                  See you all later...

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                    Well, somebody's turned up in a big Rolls Royce with no number plates - so we know threaded's here

                    This happened while I was off having a piss, of course

                    Ah well, until the next premiére, all the Hello! readers are wandering away into the night.

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                      Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
                      There's unfortunately absoluckingfutely no point in bribing me since I don't mark their projects...

                      Ho hum...
                      Do they know that yet though?

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