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Article #621110Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Bob Eager
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:39
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On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 15:58:41 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > 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. Oh yes. I had dinner with him on more than one occasion (formal Cambridge dinner). Nice man. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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