Rich kids are into COBOL

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Sun Mar 1 11:59:12 CST 2015


On 3/1/15 3:42 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> The SKIP paradigm isn't so bad, in my mind.

It makes sense on machines with a single word order code. Incr instruction
pointer by one and you're done. It makes much less sense on multi-word order
codes where you have to crack the instruction to see how far to advance the
instruction pointer.





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