Yeah. An old favorite is the story about Winston Churchill writing a memo containing a sentence that ended with a preposition. An
aide red-penciled it, and WC shot back: "This is the sort of errant pedantry, up with which I refuse to put!"
= Loren P Meissner
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From: Fortran 90 List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Maine
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:14 AM
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Subject: Re: Data type "UNDEFINED"
> Fortran 90 apparently didn't either. Following this would be carrying
> somebody's idea of "structured programming" into the realm of the
> silly.
I might add that this is exactly the kind of arbitrary rule that causes
some so-called "structured" programs to be fully as incomprehensible a
mess as the classic excessive use of goto in spaghetti code.
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