Stu Anderson 425-865-3595 wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Van Snyder wrote:
> [snip]
> > COME FROM was originally proposed (tongue in cheek) in an April issue
> > of Communications of the ACM as a replacement for GO TO.
> It was reprinted in CACM. It comes from a Datamation article in 1973.
> See the Jargon Lexicon:
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/COME-FROM.html
Does anybody on this list know why Datamation removed the Web page that
had pointers to the various "tongue in cheek" articles (or even better -
where they left them) ?
I now have enough copies of "Real Programmers Don't Write Pascal" to be
safe, but I never saved the "COME FROM" proposal.
Thanks in advance,
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