[Balgair]

Fortran story time:

As an undergrad, I had a good friend who was doing his PhD in Atmospheric Physics. It turns out, most of that field works in Fortran '88. This is not a very useful language, seeing as it uses GOTO statements to function as a loop. Fortunately, it does have comments. My friend managed to sweet-talk an older PI into giving him the old code for use in nuclear blast atmospherics (Exp: say you nuked all of France, what happens to Greenland's ice). At about 3 am before a project was due in the morning, he was pulling through the spaghetti that was the code, tired, jittery, and over-caffeinated. In this mess of logic diagrams he had to draw out by hand, he finally got to somewhere he thought was going to really cement all the code together for him. He follows a GOTO statement, and there was only a set of another GOTO statements. This went on for about 30 (my recollection of his words) GOTO statements, all 'nested'. Eventually, he gets to one that only has a comment line: 'HAHA MADE YOU LOOK'.

His laptop was defenestrated and he had to buy a new one with me about a week later.