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by no_identd
1000 days ago
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>They developed hardware optimized to run FORTRAN, including machine instructions that directly implemented FORTRAN's distinctive 3-way branch operation [=Arithmetic IF] Hahaha oh wow. That's amazing. Fun fact: Arithmetic IF makes handling exit codes significantly less annoying¹, and that's because Arithmetic IF is how we came to get signed integers as exit codes in the first place. ¹at least in theory, in practice half the people implement the codes incorrectly because they don't realize this, and so… |
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