On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 08:36 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Larry Phillips wrote:
>
>> Ah, reminds me of the old proposal to replace GOTOs with COMEFROMs. They
>> worked like this: As you were reading a sequence of statements you'd see
>>
>> COMEFROM <line#>
>>
>> The following statements would be executed if control passed through in
>> line or if control was received by a branch from <line#>. The fun part
>> was that there was no indication to the reader at the statement <line#>
>> that control transferred from there to elsewhere in the program.
>>
>> Made GOTOs seem downright comprehensible...
>
> INTERCAL!
>
>
http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/
Oh, but older than that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM appears to be fairly comprehensive.
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Matthew Saltzman
I hope everyone realizes that the COMEFROM is a joke. A
language with a
COMEFROM statement is impossible to compile.
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