From: mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com (Mutiny )
Subject: [TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.h
Date: 14 Aug 2017 11:08:26 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1502598467.S.5605.9556.f4-234-243.1502708906.16411@webmail.rediffmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1708131426100.33355@aneurin.horsfall.org>
libc.strcmp() behaves similar.From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>Sent: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 09:57:47To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>Subject: Re: [TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.hOn Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:> Don't have much to add except to note that early FORTRANs had a version> of IF that took three statement numbers and did a (gasp) GOTO to the> first if the expression in the IF was negative, to the second if it was> 0, and to the third if it was positive. And some mainframes had an> instruction that did exactly that as well...Wasn't that the computed GOTO?--Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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2017-08-13 1:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-08-13 3:39 ` Steve Johnson
2017-08-13 4:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-08-13 5:27 ` Steve Johnson
2017-08-13 5:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-08-13 17:24 ` Warner Losh
2017-08-13 18:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-08-13 8:42 ` arnold
2017-08-14 11:08 ` Mutiny [this message]
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2017-08-13 21:55 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-08-13 22:26 ` Charles Anthony
2017-08-14 0:02 ` Paul McJones
2017-08-14 16:09 ` Paul Winalski
2017-08-14 17:16 ` Paul McJones
2017-08-15 3:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-08-15 4:13 ` Paul McJones
2017-08-15 0:37 ` Dave Horsfall
[not found] <mailman.1.1502762401.21962.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-08-15 3:06 ` Paul McJones
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