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What is "MIX"????Andrew Dalke wrote:> Alex-bot:> > the answer is: "because, in a well-designed language, there> >is no situation in which ``nothing else will do as well''":-).>> I've just been rereading some of Knuth's "The Art of Computer> Programming."  I don't do it very often because I get a> headache trying to understand his use of gotos, which aren't> simply nested (directly convertable to structured loops)> and which aren't error-handling-like (convertable to exceptions).>> So Python is not a well-designed language for direct> translation of MIX code because it doesn't have gotos.>> No need to followup - just wanted to complain about MIX (again :)>>                     Andrew>dalke at acm.org

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