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		suprgeek on April 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: How long have you been programming? Nearly 17 years and still going on... Remember starting with a neat little FORTRAN Hack all the way back in college. The instructor nearly fell off his chair when saw the source code - one of my favorite moments.

xideal on April 2, 2012 [–]

That seems great fun. Could you elaborate on it? Or maybe it's too long ago..

suprgeek on April 3, 2012 | [–]

in a certain version of FORTRAN (I think 77) you could do interesting things with code that spanned two lines (80 Chars) My code did this repeatedly - over and over leading to some unexpected results

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