From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com (Mutiny ) Date: 14 Aug 2017 11:08:26 -0000 Subject: [TUHS] =?utf-8?q?origin_of_string=2Eh_and_ctype=2Eh?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1502598467.S.5605.9556.f4-234-243.1502708906.16411@webmail.rediffmail.com> 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." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: