<DIV>I recently joined this list and have not seen any traffic yet... I'll try this anyway.</DIV>
<DIV>Someone mentioned to me the other day a story about how an early FORTRAN compiler was used to compile a program that was executed on a space probe with dire consequences due to ambiguities at the lexer level in a "do loop" (the anecdote went like this: "you see, back then white space was not used as a token separator, etc.) Obviously, I am short on details here. Can anybody help me fill them in with some good references? thanks in advance,</DIV>
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<DIV>David</DIV><BR><BR>--
<br>Dr. David Furcy, Assistant Professor
<br>Computer Science Department
<br>University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
<br>furcyd@uwosh.edu
<br>http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/furcyd</BR></BR>