🚀 go-pugleaf

     Ah yes, the Commodore PET days.  I have fond memories too.

     I remember in high school there was a bully who would steal my designated
time on the PET.  I guess he hated me because I made fun of his stupid
mistakes.  And he was so much bigger and fatter than I, what could I do?
     One time, he typed this long program in out of a book, and after debugging
it (which amounted to RUN, syntax error, check the book, make correction, RUN,
over and over for about an hour) and SAVEing it to tape, he of course wanted to
VERIFY that it was completely and uncorrupted on the tape.  So, he methodically
types NEW, and VERIFY and gets no errors.  By now I was laughing so hard, he
couldn't help but think he'd goofed so he VERIFYs again.  If I had looked 
carefully, I'll bet he typed NEW again.
     It took me a while to explain his mistake.  I had stopped laughing and 
his train of thought was still boarding at the station.

P.S.  Mike Sullivan, if you'd like the blurb on REAL programmers, email me.

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"After all is said an done,                        John Schmitt
 a lot more is said than done."                    jo...@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Don't blame anybody for what I say.                SCHM...@SCIvax.mcmaster.ca