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

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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:57:34 EDT
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Subject: Re: [MI400] MI as the MI language of the as400.

Of course, the whole debate over GOTOs and computed GOTOs (and that venerable

FORTRAN construct, the numeric IF) is kind of ludicrous, considering as how
in
MI, we HAVE to implement all IF/THEN/ELSE and CASE constructs by
hand-coding
them in terms of constructs no more inherently structured than
those present in
ANSI-66 FORTRAN IV.

Are we straining at gnats while
swallowing ENIAC, and going after mote in one
eye while ignoring a beam in
the other, or
what?

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