Re: [MI400] MI as the MI language of the as400.

["Mark Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, folks:

I was just going to say, this reminds me of the old "structured
programming" debates that used to rage in the '70s... one of the
best, funny, tongue-in-cheek articles that was submitted to and
published in Datamation in 1973, described the ultimate "solution"
to all of the then-raging debates, the "COME FROM" statement,
whereby you could code a program (in a Fortran style) like:

10
    ...
    IF (A < B) COME FROM 10
    ...

and other interesting variations.

For more info, visit:
http://www.fortran.com/fortran/come_from.html

It is all very entertaining.  Go to www.google.com and search
for the phrase "COME FROM statement"... you will be amazed
at how many "hits" you get... :-)

Now, can we take this topic "off-list", please?

Thanks,

Mark S. Waterbury

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <mi400@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MI400] MI as the MI language of the as400.


> From: <jamesl@hb.quik.com>
> > and the ALGOLs (including Pascal),
> > there isn't a "then," but the condition
> > must be in
>
> these needed the "then" but not the ().
> How far away from MI can we get before Don yells?
>
>
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