Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> folklore has it that Mariner II was lost to exactly such a bug).
> Ouch -- got the point.
BTW, I think I was beating you over the head with an urban legend.
Some idle googling revealed the true facts of the Mariner failure:
http://www.rchrd.com/Misc-Texts/Famous_Fortran_Errors
Nonetheless, it's well established that loops should be able to
do nothing when doing nothing is called for. Even Fortran got the
point after awhile...
regards, tom lane