Truth in dating (was: HELP! Must choose language!)

[Ben Leslie]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John Baxter wrote:

> In article <6rsfva.d74.ln at beastie.ix.netcom.com>,
>  Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> > > have punctuation and block delimiters :-). ... and OO will be done
> > > right this time! Yay!
> > >
> >         As long as "bless" doesn't turn into "dam*" <G>
> 
> Kind of like my (remarkably good) boss in the late 1960s, who pretended 
> to want to replace the
>    goto
> with the
>    comefrom
> 
> The latter would be
>    comefrom  label
> where label was applied to the point of departure.  Various conditional 
> were certainly in the mix.
> 
> When one looked at the idea semi-seriously, there didn't seem to be any 
> showstoppers.  And one could see at a glance the names of every point 
> from which control might suddenly arrive at this code...something that's 
> harder with goto.
> 

And of course, to create a thread you can come from the same label twice,
and thus threaded intercal was born....

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/intercal/threaded.html

Benno