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Article #4214Re: Stupid programming errors.
From: j... John Kallen
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 23:00
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 23:00
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This thread brings to memory one of my most frustrating experiences as a novice BASIC programmer. I was writing a Really Cool (TM) graphics program on the Trash-80 Model I (R.I.P.) and entered an infinite loop for some reason. Examining the code yielded 1000 FOR I=1 TO 100 1010 REM SOME CODE HERE 1020 GOTO 1000 1030 NEXT I For some reason I had decided to "help" the FOR loop with a GOTO! _______________________________________________________________________________ | | | | |\ | | /|\ | John Kallen "Stonehenge is very | |\ \|/ \| * |/ | |/| | | 3232 Round Hill Dr. nutritious." | |\ /|\ |\ * |\ | | | | Hayward CA 94345 - Migato Gami _|_|___|___|____|_\|___|__|__|_1-415-886 6323__________________________________
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!neon!jkl From: j...@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Stupid programming errors. Message-ID: <1990Sep4.230054.7245@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 4 Sep 90 23:00:54 GMT References: <74@iconsys> <Z38To4w162w@vector0> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 16 Posted: Wed Sep 5 00:00:54 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit