VOTE

[Aaron Konstam]

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.
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