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Did COBOL have an English-like "or" operator?

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Why did the assigned goto statement in Fortran need a label list?

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Was there a bug in Wirth's original Pascal compiler?

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Is it true that "do ... done" blocks in Bash do not end with "od" because od existed before Bash/Bourne shell?

10 votes

Was there an analog of local labels in the IBM assembly language?

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How was dataflow analysis performed before SSA?

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How did macro-instructions and indirect addressing interact in IBM's MAP/FAP assemblers?

7 votes
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Looking for the source code of a sophisticated Pascal pretty-printing program

6 votes
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First use of "destructuring" in computing?

5 votes

Why did the IBM 650 use bi-quinary?

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Unix utility "smiley" to decode emoticons: Where to get it?

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How did UCSD Pascal exception mechanism work?

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What was the first programming language, other than Lisp, to have “short-circuiting” Boolean expressions?

4 votes

Did the Algol 68 standard allow a procedure to be called before its declaration?

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Which extant ALGOL-60 compilers fully support numeric labels?

3 votes

When and why did high-level language compilers start targeting assembly language rather than machine code?

2 votes

Where does the branch…of/back control flow construct in a Soviet dialect of Pascal come from?