Hmm, thanks! But now I worry myself, if "GoTo" was good enough for Donald Knuth...then why isn't it good enough for me??? And, is it therefore possible that the whole crusade against "goto" is just an irrational fad??/ Are we persecuting ourselves for no good reason??? Will future generations of computer users, in the year 3000 A.D., look back and view our forswearing of the most usefull "goto" statement, as equivalent to how we view Islamic folks beating themselves with whips in a religious frenzy??? Inquiring (and besotted) minds want to know... Jose' Sebrosa wrote: > Ron Stephens wrote: > > > > What is "MIX"???? > > MIX is a computer (or its assembly language): > > """ > MIX is the world's first polyunsatured computer. Like most machines, it has an > identifying number -- the 1009. This number was found by taking 16 actual > computers very similar to MIX and on which MIX could easily be simulated, then > averaging their numbers with equal weight: > > INT ((360 + 650 + 709 + 7070 + U3 + SS80 + 1107 + 1604 + G20 + B220 + S2000 + > 920 + 601 + H800 + PDP-4 + II)/16) = 1009 > > The same number may also be obtained in a simpler way by taking Roman numerals. > """ > > -Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", > Vol. 1, p.124 > > You can look for "MIXware" here: > http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html > > or for lots of stuff here: > http://www.google.com/search?q=MIX+knuth > > Anyway, you probably don't need to know unless you worship Knuth. But hei!, > what kind of person would not worship Knuth? :-) > > Sebrosa
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