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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 20:58

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On 4 Mar 2018 11:01:36 GMT, Huge wrote:
>
> I spent a couple of years, several decades ago, programming MUMPS (on
> a PDP11/40 IIRC). I loved it. At the time, my favourite programming
> language (not that I knew many) and the first high level language (well,
> kinda) that I'd ever come across that had facilities built-in to write
> self modifying code.

That was because it lacked a stack?

I just learned about using self modifying codes to do jumps to
subroutines on languages (or CPUs) not supporting stacks
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR8V0lq029c>.

It is called Wheeler Jump there.
-- 
Andreas

My random toughts and comments
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