Today I'm going to #Munich for the @vcfe where I'm exhibiting early #Atari home computers, giving a lecture on the #GOTO controversy and holding an editor-editorial meeting about the next volumes in the #ComputerArchaeology book series. As the icing on the cake, swap (my) #THAT analog computer for a Leyboldt-Haraeus #AnalogComputer.
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A very nice paper on 4 taboos of #programming (explicit control transfer [#GOTO], low-level programming [#assembly], #flowcharts, and global variables) - with a neat theoretical background in #anthropologic taboo theory.
Tracing back #programming language history to the root of the very first (mnemonic) #GOTO instruction (jump/branch) I found two different sources:
1. In 1954 Nathanael Rochester developed the "first" mnemonic #assembler for the #IBM 701 #mainframe computer that uses "TR" jump commands: https://shrtn.escalar.pt/ZuE5
2. In 1947 the "manual" for the #Whirlwind computer contained the "sp x" mnemonic: https://shrtn.escalar.pt/FdYC
So, which one was actually the "first" to use mnemonics for branching?
Well, if you are a computer scientist and your name was #GOTO
3 Ways You’re Screwing up Platform Engineering – And How to Fix It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQteH0qcVjE
#platformengineering #goto #developers
How Fast Can You Parse a File with 1 Billion Rows of Weather Data Using Java?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFXxXFHpS0M&t=1s&utm_medium=erik.in&utm_source=mastodon
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Today's project, for which I spilt blood, is finally to get a log of the output from the garage mounted solar panels, using a 40 year old computer to do the logging just because, er, why not? An Arduino is calculating output in watts from the time between pulses which come from an energy meter in the garage, sending them by serial connection to the NEC PC8201a which does the logging.
It's powered by a very old and slightly crusty home made variable power supply.
The NEC is running a program written in Microsoft BASIC. Like most people of my age I started writing BASIC before this computer was made, but it's far from my favourite language so I've not written any BASIC in a *very* long time (except a loader for a spectrum program a few years ago). Because I had never used it before, and on this occasion I could, this program uses the ON COM GOSUB feature. This feature interrupts the flow of the main program whenever data arrives on the serial port, similar in concept to how hardware interrupts work on the processor itself. A bizarre thing for any BASIC dialect to include! As this is BASIC, all variables are global and there's no stack to save state on.
It has 16 K of RAM, shared by the program, file system, my logged data etc.
#basic #msbasic #goto #gosub #NECPC8201A #playingwithcomputers
LastPass, the password management app that was bought buy GoTo a few years back (and which has suffered several major security breaches in recent years) has now spun off as a standalone company again. https://buff.ly/4blIONl #LastPass #PasswordManager #GoTo
The Verge · LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches
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5/6 "Application Security: Inside Out • Simon Corlett • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 17 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 28s
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_UdTcfac-nE #goto #security
Tech Talks Weekly #11 is out now! See the featured talks in the 
https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/tech-talks-weekly-11
#java #javascript #python #rust #elixir #golang #vdbuh24 #conference #goto #ndc #rustnation
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Tech Talks Weekly #10 is out now! See the featured talks in the
https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/tech-talks-weekly-10
#java #javascript #python #rust #elixir #rabbitmq #wasm #goto #ndc #kubecon #rustnation
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Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete fell out. #GOTO considered harmful.
Just did a webinar on linux using firefox and the goto webinar system with 0 issues
1hr later, I've got a second webinar with a different company but also running the goto webinar system, only this time I get a message:
Sorry this browser is not supported.
#programmation
2024 : on peut encore s'écharper sur le #goto
https://ziggit.dev/t/c-goto-vs-zig-defer-errdefer-break/2952
Ziggit · C goto vs Zig defer / errdefer / breakTo be honest, I personally consider goto approach to cleanup code to be very nice, simple and readable. But this is the only case where explicit goto is really needed. Zig’s way to do cleanup in a function requires a bit more thinking, whereas in C I do it automatically.
And here I thought they wanted performance 
Frau sucht nach einer #VideoConferencing Lösung. #Zoom fällt eigentlich ganz raus mit deren Datenschutzrichtlinien. #Goto hat wohl keine detscher Steuernummer, so daß das Abbrechen schwer wird. Was sind so die Alternativen? #Jitsi? Da das erstmal nur ein Test ust ob das überhaupt angenommen wird will mich erstmal nicht ans selber hosten machen. Als ich es (vor langer Zeit) getestet hab war aber deren public Instanz überlastet.
The much maligned GOTO statement was essential for my mom, not a otherwise a programmer, to reprogram the C64 text based adventure game "Vill Vest" (Wild West in Norwegian) so that you couldn't die. She changed the post death goto statement so it went to the start of the event loop instead of to the end sequence, cementing forever in my mind: "You are dead. Do you want to go north, east or west.
She also edited the max inventory variable from 8 to 16 for convenience.
If a locked filing cabinet is stolen along with its key, can you still say it’s locked?
GoTo thinks you can.
#LastPass owner #GoTo says hackers stole customers’ backups.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/goto-customer-backups-stolen-lastpass/
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