On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:41:32 -0000, N.LENN @ WKX.KM.EU
wrote in :
Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sn!pe said:
wrote:

One man's constant is another man's variable

as old computer programmers used to say

Old computers were like that.

And the languages that ran on them.

PROGRAM INCONSTANT
CALL BONK(5)
PRINT *,5
STOP
END
SUBROUTINE BONK(I)
I=I+1
END

Ah, good old FORTRAN IV[1]. Luckily it's now called "Fortran 2003".

[1] Or G, H, what-have-you...

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