Harvard vs. vonNeuman

It was thus said that the Great ben franchuk once stated: Back when I took Assembly langauge (8086) at college, I used self-modifying code in one of the assignments (the teacher and I didn't get along and this was my attempt at getting a "rise" out of the teacher). The assignment was to sort a list of numbers in ascending or descending order (depending upon user input) so I simply changed the jump instruction after the compare in the sort routine. It saved either two copies of the routine (differing in only a single instruction), a complicated logical nest in the middle of a sort routine, or using a callback routine. As far as I can recall, that was the *only* time I've ever done self-modifying code. -spc (And it seemed like a good reason at the time ... )