[CLUE-Talk] Laughing my a** off

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Wed May 28 22:41:40 MDT 2003


On Wed, 28 May 2003 22:22:34 -0600
"G. Richard Raab" <rraab at plusten.com> wrote:

> Cool code. We can do loops in programs? :)

I just can't resist mentioning my all-time favorite looping instruction,
from the DEC PDP instructions set; it's "Subtract One and Branch". Yep,
you know what the opcode for that one is. (Yeah, OK, technically, it's
just a branch instruction, but most often used in for-loop type
constructs.)

jed
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