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[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Larry Phillips wrote:

>
>> Ah, reminds me of the old proposal to replace GOTOs with COMEFROMs.  They
>> worked like this:  As you were reading a sequence of statements you'd see
>>
>>  	COMEFROM <line#>
>>
>> The following statements would be executed if control passed through in
>> line or if control was received by a branch from <line#>.  The fun part
>> was that there was no indication to the reader at the statement <line#>
>> that control transferred from there to elsewhere in the program.
>>
>> Made GOTOs seem downright comprehensible...
>
> INTERCAL!
>
> http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/

Oh, but older than that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM appears to be fairly comprehensive.
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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