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>They developed hardware optimized to run FORTRAN, including machine instructions that directly implemented FORTRAN's distinctive 3-way branch operation [=Arith
by no_identd 3y ago
>They developed hardware optimized to run FORTRAN, including machine instructions that directly implemented FORTRAN's distinctive 3-way branch operation [=Arithmetic IF]
Hahaha oh wow. That's amazing. Fun fact:
Arithmetic IF makes handling exit codes significantly less annoying¹, and that's because Arithmetic IF is how we came to get signed integers as exit codes in the first place.
¹at least in theory, in practice half the people implement the codes incorrectly because they don't realize this, and so…