Eons ago in Engineering class I wrote my first Fortran code on punch cards and submitted the deck to the teaching assistant (TA). (No direct access to a computer in those dark days) The program started, ran a while, a red error light lit on the front panel and the computer crashed. Reworked the code, same results. The TA tried to help me debug it. She was stumped. I may have had that extra hyphen that they missed. After several rewrites and submissions she gave me a passing lab grade and I focused on hardware from then on…..
Eons ago in Engineering class I wrote my first Fortran code on punch cards and submitted the deck to the teaching assistant (TA). (No direct access to a computer in those dark days) The program started, ran a while, a red error light lit on the front panel and the computer crashed. Reworked the code, same results. The TA tried to help me debug it. She was stumped. I may have had that extra hyphen that they missed. After several rewrites and submissions she gave me a passing lab grade and I focused on hardware from then on…..