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The Voyager probe was programmed in Fortran language. For that, there were a
great "bug", because in Fortran, the way of defining assingnements is nearly
the same to the way of defining loops. You can find more info about it in
this link:
http://lists.humbug.org.au/archives/general/1998-October/011248.html
And I've heard this history from two ways, so it's possibly true.
Regards, Héctor.
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