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From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Loops
Message-ID: <21187@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 88 02:31:40 GMT
References: <2827@enea.se> <1557@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <2773@mmintl.UUCP> <294@tmsoft.UUCP> <2797@mmintl.UUCP> <YWK3hUy00VA88IO0UA@andrew.cmu.edu> <340@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson)
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In article <340@aiva.ed.ac.uk> richard@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Richard Tobin) writes:
|In article <YWK3hUy00VA88IO0UA@andrew.cmu.edu> jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) writes:
|>While i'm at childish flaming, i might as well say that i _really_ hate `fi',
|>`rof', `esac', and `elihw'.  Can anyone say they're a good idea and keep a
|>straight face?
|
|Yeah, I think they're great, especially 'tnemmoc' and 'nigeb'.

Reminds me of a paper I was just re-reading: "Design of a LISP-Based
Microprocessor" by Steele et al.  It contains a pseudocode listing of a
state machine, which uses two constructs, "if" and "type-dispatch".  The
last state is:

RETURN: TYPE-DISPATCH ON CLINK INTO
	"IF2": GOTO IF2
	"EVCOM3": GOTO EVCOM3
	HCTAPSID-EPYT		!SESOL ARTSKJID


	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amdcad.amd.com)