On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Van Snyder wrote:
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> 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
--Stu Anderson
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