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[sylvar]

Oh, thank heavens I'm not the only one who noticed the bug in WIRED. Go ahead, read the code and see if you can spot the problem. As a veteran of Atari BASIC, I frowned instantly.

The article, Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World (printed as "The Ages of Innovation"), is about chronological age and technology leadership.



Hands up if you spotted the bug.

Comments

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Son of a bitch... well played!

Hands up if you spotted the *other* bug.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, I hadn't been entirely sure, but I don't think you can enter a value for A$. Which means the program will always print "SORRY! GOODBYE." immediately after asking for the user's age.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Right. It should be 10 INPUT "prompt?", A$.