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Re: terminate a PHP script [message #172635 is a reply to message #172634] Tue, 22 February 2011 17:26 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
sheldonlg is currently offline  sheldonlg
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On 2/22/2011 12:18 PM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <ijv1cm$qeb$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>,
> sheldonlg <sheldonlg(at)thevillages(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/21/2011 7:28 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>>> Well that's cos you never wrote Assembler :-)
>>>
>>
>> Correct! That was before even my time. :-) By the time I got into it
>> with Fortran IV, the compiled code looked an awful lot like Assembly
>> code. Machines should be labor saving devices. That was what the
>> compiler was for. Besides, it is much easier to debug and maintain a
>> language that is readable, and not like spaghetti code (gotos and jumps).
>
> What do you mean "[Assembler] was before even my time". Last year I

For applications, not for the low level board stuff. Way back before my
time, all they had was Assembler. By the time I got into it (1964),
Fortran was already there (and, ugh!, Cobol). No one I knew wrote
applications in Assembler by then.

> bought a 68000 single board computer [1], cranked the RAM up from
> 0.5Mbytes to 2Mbytes, and have spent a happy time writing a
> multi-tasking kernel for it - in assembler.
> And yes, you can write spaghetti in assembler too - but you don't have to.
>
> [1] Actually, if I'd known about the Arduino at the time I might have
> bought one of those.
>


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Shelly
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