Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

[Peter da Silva]

On 2012-05-14, at 10:58, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> Reminds me of an April-fools article introducing "COME FROM" to the
> language to ease debugging. In the end of that article they also
> described "COME FROM ON ...". Hilarious
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
> http://www.fortran.com/come_from.html

FORTRAN "DO" is basically "COME FROM".

      DO 10 I = 1, 10
      ...
10    FORMAT(1X,23HGUESS WHAT HAPPENS HERE)