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From: Walter Bushell
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:35

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In article <ffga3c...@mid.individual.net>,
 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2018-02-25, Andrew Swallow <am.sw...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> [15 lines snipped]
> 
> > Reading Fortran and Assembler code tells you how, it does not tell you 
> > why. Comments are needed for that.
> 
> *applause*
> 
> Anyone who writes code like this should be shot;
> 
> x=5;		# Set x to 5

Surely sending them to a reeducation camp would suffice?!

-- 
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.

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From: Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Nostalgia
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