On Jan 10, at 09:37 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
>>
>>> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended)
>> as to why
>>>> there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by empty shampoo
>>>> bottles:
>>>>
>>>> 1 Wet hair
>>>> 2) Apply shampoo and rub in
>>>> 3) Rinse
>>>> 4) Repeat
>>>>
>>>> The dead guy was a QL programmer.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Surely in that case the instructions would have needed to be:
>>>
>>> REPeat
>>> Wet_Hair
>>> Apply_shampoo_and_rub_in
>>> Rinse
>>> END REPeat
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> (line numbers ommitted because life's too short)
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Ade.
>>>
>>>
>> Pedant (8-)#
>>
>> (Pot calling the kettle black).
>>
>
> The sad thing is, I really had to rack my brains to remember the repeat/end
> repeat structure... It's been far too long since I used SuperBASIC in anger.
>
> But yes, it was a bit of a pedant call, sorry (is there a "sheepish grin"
> emoticon?)
>
;-) baabaa
I only commented really as I am usually the pedant.
Tony
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