On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:29:39 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: >-------------------------<snip>---------------------------- > >> .... "yeah, go back to ye olde home" (from a >>subroutine) and many similar phrases. >> >------------------------<unsnip>----------------------------- >"Way back" when I was involved in fitting local mods to the WATFIV >processor, the processor had a full-page comment at the very end; in the >middle of this blank space was the sentence "This space for rent".
Ok.... my favorite was from the listing of the MCP for the Burroughs 1700 series, coded in an Algol-like language called SDL. The main loop was coded as a function, rather than a subroutine, even though the value returned was never used. That loop was called NUTHIN_TDO and was invoked by: IF NUTHIN_TDO ; GO FEED THE DUCKS The semicolon (I'm not sure that's the correct character) signalled that the rest of the line was comments. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
