On 15/09/2014 20:59, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> My favourite Fortran story: >> >> One of the Mariner spacecraft yonks ago was sent a routine regular >> course correction. It flew off at some wild angle and was never seen >> again, and because the antenna was pointing in the wrong direction comms >> could not be re-established. Oops. Expensive spacecraft down the drain.... >> >> The bug was eventually trace to a comma instead of a period in some >> Fortran code (made a huge difference). Note that many code reviews >> missed the bug, and the compiler accepted it as valid syntax > > Perhaps instead of > > Do 15 i=1,10 > > a loop from 1 to 10 > > we had > > Do 15 i=1.10 > > which is the same in fortran as > > do15i = 1.0 > > an assignment statement.
If memory serves if was indeed something like that. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
