Date   : Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:13:19 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Basic6809 1.00

Greg Cook wrote:

 > Edgar Dijkstra

Ah... He who didn't like GOTOs.


> hand-wrote

As he tended to do. I guess it gave more gravitas than something bashed 
out on a keyboard. Any monkey with half a wit can write crap with a 
computer - 99% of the Internet is ample proof of that. ;-)


 > a charming paper in 1982 championing semi-inclusive ranges in this style,

I still fail to see why 2...12 is not sufficient to mark out a range 
from 2 to 12. Using 2...less-than-13 is odd, because it implies that:
   *Save Blah 8000 8001
is the command to save an empty file!


> http://homepages.tesco.net/rainstorm/

Nice site... The "False CRC-CCITT calculation in the Shakespeare 
programming language" is a bit over my head (hated the verbosity of it 
at school), perhaps it could lend itself to a mini Fighting Fantasy 
adventure (aahhhh, remember The Citadel of Chaos?).


Best wishes,

Rick.

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