9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
1:56 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:53:48 -0700 (PDT), Fred Cisin
<cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
He was
well-regarded by his colleagues, and displeased when I suggested that
a
TEACHER of FORTRAN should surely be ably to debug such an obvious
error,
for his was too highly evolved a mind to concern itself with whether
it
should be a comma or a full-stop between the device number and the
FORMAT
statement number in a WRITE statement (such being the ways of the
Grand
Academy of Lagado, and most of the rest of Academia). When he moved
to a
different university a few years later, I was given his job, starting
with
teaching FORTRAN, now on 5150 with MS-FORTRAN.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-08-05/
/Jonas