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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: Addressing modes (conditional branches)
Message-ID: <426@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 11:52:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 11:52:52 1986
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In article <546@tekcrl.UUCP>, patc@tekcrl.UUCP (Pat Caudill) writes:
> 	We now look down on self modifying code, but at that time
> it was considered a great step forward. Ahh, those were the good old days.
> 
> 			Tektronix!tekcrl!patc

It will return; it's too neat an idea to stay dead.  What we lack is the
needed formal discipline to use it carefully.  Spaghetti code has given
way to the cleaner structured programs, now that we have patterned code
closer to the way we think.  I still have, and routinely use, a program
that depends for its successful operation on self-modifying code. [Yay!
I'm out of the closet at last!] I was able to find no other way to meet
the required conditions (animated display using a slow computer) and no
one else has either -- though several have tried.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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