Spehro Pefhany wrote in message . ..
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:37:51 GMT, the renowned Larry Jaques
wrote:
(BTW, it's "Voilį!")
More like "Voilą!". ;-)
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
High their:
This bit about 'viola' reminds me about some programming folklore
that,
AFAIK, is not documented anywhere, but deserves to be (in my
opinion).
In the early days (BC - before compilers) an anonymous programmer
cobbled together a huge, badly-designed, complicated, spaghetti-code
assembly-language program, loaded with poorly nested loops and replete
with illegal 'go-to's'. Finally, after many many interminable
debugging sessions, he managed to get the wretched monstrosity to limp
around. In triumph, he changed the last label in the program,
renaming it 'voila'. But he was a poor speller, so he entered 'viola'
instead. So, it became a tradition, in that shop, (and elsewhere)that
the last label in an assembly-language program should always be
'viola'.
Mb-A