13 Aug
2017
13 Aug
'17
10:26 a.m.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:
Don't have much to add except to note that early
FORTRANs had a version
of IF that took three statement numbers and did a (gasp) GOTO to the
first if the expression in the IF was negative, to the second if it was
0, and to the third if it was positive. And some mainframes had an
instruction that did exactly that as well...
Wasn't that the computed GOTO?
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