Fortran Purity Test
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Description: Humorous quiz for Fortran programmers.
Fortran purity test [rec.humor.funny] By: [email protected] (Craig Burley) Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139 In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Walt Brainerd) writes: Each member of X3J3 will complete the following form, the secretary will record the total points, and the member will be allowed that many votes on each issue. I apologize to the secretary for the extra work involved, but fairness is surely more important. [...] To the secretary: please put me down as having 77 votes. Of course, I tried to rig it so I would have the most points, but Jim Matheny of CSC had more. Ok, conservatively, I have 1+14+22+0+(-11) = 26 points (sure hope I added and subtracted right! :-). The -11 might be a bit extreme, but I really can't remember writing anything over 500 in Fortran that's "important" since 1980 or 81 or so. Does this mean I'm not allowed to write a Fortran compiler? :-) I think another fun way to determine how many votes people on X3J3 get is to come up with a test of ones'
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