Computer Old Farts Forum
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Bakul Shah via COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>, COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: ancient macros, machine code translation,as mental architecture models
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:38:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16D7A46-7562-4954-9ABC-5B62229C4138@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VSf6_jjwLSPQOgdayCBydk-kVwubYcqsLJii2yw+CyOtA@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 15, 2024, at 7:26 AM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Modules are delimited by the keywords MODULE and ELUOM (module spelt backwards)

I wonder who was the person who came up with the idea of reversing the beginning keyword to end the corresponding block in Algol68.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-15 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-15 12:37 Douglas McIlroy
2024-07-15 14:26 ` Paul Winalski
2024-07-15 14:38   ` Bakul Shah via COFF [this message]
2024-07-15 19:39 ` John Levine
2024-07-16 19:55   ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-16 20:09     ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-17 17:00       ` [COFF] Re: ancient macros Aron Insinga
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-07-13 23:46 [COFF] Re: machine code translation,as mental architecture models John Levine
2024-07-13 22:00 ` Douglas McIlroy
2024-07-14  0:56   ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-14 18:02     ` [COFF] Re: ancient macros, " John Levine
2024-07-15  1:44       ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-15 14:09         ` Paul Winalski

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E16D7A46-7562-4954-9ABC-5B62229C4138@iitbombay.org \
    --to=coff@tuhs.org \
    --cc=bakul@iitbombay.org \
    --cc=douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu \
    --cc=paul.winalski@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).