CBM 8032 SK (& electronics) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Aug 2001

On August 27, Adrian Vickers wrote:
...
    You mean you
_don't_ write self-modifying code? Odd....  
 It was drilled into me from a very early age that self-modifying code was A
 Bad Thing. 
As I said, I am not a programmer, so I don't worry about such things.  
 :) It plays havoc with your designs.... Imagine a circuit that could
 reconfigure itself at will... 
  That's a whole different issue.  Sorry, but I have to butt-in here.
Self-modifying code is a time-proven technique frequently used by
history's most clever programmers.  Now in the face of RISC-y things
like out-of-order instruction execution and such, it's generally not
possible, but on stuff like PDP10/PDP11 machines it was commonly
employed with much success.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD