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> I prefer bug-finding mistakes...


A _long_ time ago, I was converting a program from one dialect of BASIC, to
another. The original dialect had a special keyword 'REMOVE'. Can't remember
what it did exactly, but it was important to the program. With the new
interpreter, this keyaord was being ignored. It never complained about the
keyword being illegal. I was very confused. Just to be sure I wasn't
imagining things, I added an X to it: 'REMOVEX'. Still no complaints. I
added a whole line of garbage, and still no complaints from the interpreter.
After much experimenting, I found that the new interpreter would ignore
anything that began with the letters REM.

That's when the light went on.

Neil

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