OT: Programming (was Re: word creation algorithm)

From: <li_sasxsek@...>
>
>> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>
>> I'm too much of a geek, I guess, but the license
>> plates around here (usually of the form "ABC
>>123") just make me think of assembly language...
>
> Nothing wrong with assembly.
>
> NOP
> NOP
> NOP
> END

That reminds me of when I studied Fortran around
1973. We were advised that the new mainframe
was so fast, we should end all programs like this
to be sure the program actually stopped:  :-)

10 STOP
     STOP
     STOP
     GO TO 10

(I did assembly language full-time for seven years,
and I too think of assembly mnemonics when I
see local license plates. BNE branch not equal,
SRA shift right arithmetic, etc.)

--Ph. D.

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