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Quietam_Unum 1 point ago +1 / -0

...and 2000 GOTO statements.

Hoe-lee carp! That must have looked like a bowl of spaghetti!

When I first started CDC still had FORTRAN-66 as the default compiler. My favorite test (it worked) was using a GOTO to RETURN from a subroutine. My favorite obscure error (it took me forever to find the cause) was "Inner loop not outer."

The FORTRAN 77 compiler reined in GOTO pranks a lot...