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. > -- > Matthew Saltzman I hope everyone realizes that the COMEFROM is a joke. A language with a COMEFROM statement is impossible to compile. -- ======================================================================= Measure twice, cut once. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
