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> I didn’t cover [INTERCAL] because the gags aren’t that interesting. I'm fairly certain that INTERCAL introduced 'COME FROM'. They later made a concurrency s

> I didn’t cover [INTERCAL] because the gags aren’t that interesting. I'm fairly certain that INTERCAL introduced 'COME FROM'. They later made a concurrency scheme based on multiple COME FROMs addressing the same label.

jacquesm 5y ago
Conditional threats: "If then, or else"
- yvdriess 5y ago
  Being polite to the compiler, but not overly polite.
  - astrange 5y ago
    I was thinking of designing a language like that where you'd have to shift gears to make the program go at the right speed, otherwise it would stall.
chriswarbo 5y ago
> I'm fairly certain that INTERCAL introduced 'COME FROM' Yep. In fact, INTERCAL uses labelled COMEFROM, e.g. `COMEFROM foo`, in analogy to labelled GOTO like `GOTO foo`. If you think that's silly, there are languages which have an unlabelled COMEFROM, which doesn't even specify where it's going to take over control from! This symbol is usually written `catch` or `except`.