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Arcade Wise 2023-11-04 00:48:42

This is a cute little section from the wordmaster manual :>

Arcade Wise 2023-11-04 00:48:44

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Arcade Wise 2023-11-04 00:49:03

I did in fact get the 12 lines

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abeyer 2023-11-04 22:11:37

s/jumped/jumps/

Arcade Wise 2023-11-04 01:18:29

considered harmful?

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Ivan Reese 2023-11-04 01:18:50

Dijkstra!

Arcade Wise 2023-11-04 01:19:17

I love horrifying 80s CP/M ASCII C

Personal Dynamic Media 2023-11-04 01:28:36

Dijkstra!

Knuth!

Kartik Agaram 2023-11-04 04:06:35

A friend of mine in the 90s had the following email signature that it took me forever to get:

A goto a day keeps the D**a away.

Kartik Agaram 2023-11-04 04:11:15

And yes, pic.plover.com/knuth-GOTO.pdf is a great response to the D**a.

Jack Rusher 2023-11-04 08:10:46

I’m writing a parser in Clojure this morning, and I can tell you that I’m not enjoying the absence of a GOTO-like mechanism ( tagbody in Common Lisp, for example) while building the state machine.

Jack Rusher 2023-11-04 20:13:05

@Dave Liepmann Sadly, it abuses the exception mechanism to produce a slow and buggy version of that feature. I think the only good way to add tagbody in Clojure would involve voodoo to produce custom Java byte code.