in reply to Can you code this fast?

One of my coworker told me that when she was working on a COBOL/Y2K project with a bunch of contractors, sometime she saw one single line being repeated 20 times straight.

Know why? the contractors are paid by lines ;-)

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Re^2: Can you code this fast?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2004 at 19:11 UTC
    Hey. Saves the compiler the trouble to unroll the loop. ;)