14 Aug
2017
14 Aug
'17
5:08 p.m.
libc.strcmp() behaves similar.From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>Sent:
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 09:57:47To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org>Subject: Re: [TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.hOn 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?--Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't
understand security will suffer."