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COME FROM is also the foundation of concurrency in some versions of INTERCAL - if there are two COME FROM statements for the same origin, then when execution re

by twic 6y ago

COME FROM is also the foundation of concurrency in some versions of INTERCAL - if there are two COME FROM statements for the same origin, then when execution reaches that point, it forks. Threaded INTERCAL actually has a very disciplined approach to safety. Each thread gets its own copy of all variables, so threads do not share any mutable data at all. However, they still share the same code, which is also mutable, so they can communicate through that.

tomsmeding 6y ago
> a very disciplined approach to safety [...] they still share the same code, which is also mutable, so they can communicate through that Disciplined, maybe; usable/sane, certainly not. Then again, it's INTERCAL, so that was most certainly the intention.