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Article #620932Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Walter Bushell
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:11
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Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: >Python? Try assembly language - or, if you are old enough to remember >BCPL, that's a language where you can store the address of some code in a >label and GOTO somewhere completely different... Ach! Even Fortan will let you store a jump to a arbitray location, by storing data past the limits of an array an into program code. I did this once an was puzzeled by how I got from A to C without going through B. I think I resorted to DDT. >-- >Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... >Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: > http://www.mirrorservice.org -- -- O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion:
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From: Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:11:00 +0000 (UTC)
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