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Article #137Re: Debacle after 1999 (was FORTRAN Greetings)
From: jo... Douglas W. Jones201H MLH31...
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 21:55
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 21:55
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>From article <57...@umd5.umd.edu>, by zb...@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston): > > There was once a Fortran compiler (actually, it was a Michigan Algorithmic > Decoder - MAD compiler with a bug/feature that it compiled Fortran too, but > that is a different Urban Myth). It was written by a group of people with > an amazing sense of humor. It printed pictures of Alfred E. Newman when the > diagnostic count exceeded fifty .... > The story I heard about the MAD compiler was that, one day, a group of state legislators was being taken on a tour through the computer center when the printer produced a portrait of Alfred E. Newman. They were offended that their state appropriation was being spent on such trash, and soon after that, the MAD compiler stopped producing such portraits. Doug Jones jo...@herky.cs.uiowa.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!ns-mx!pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu From: jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Debacle after 1999 (was FORTRAN Greetings) Message-ID: <298@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 14 Dec 89 21:55:15 GMT References: <5784@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: ne...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Lines: 16 Posted: Thu Dec 14 22:55:15 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit