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Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
:> So create a new keyword, contraction of "with" and "use" --> "wise"
: 
: does anybody know where to find that delicious joke about
: those advanced syntax constructs like "come from" (complement to goto)
: or "not procname;"(negating call to proc) etc. etc.    ?

I think I've found it:

A LINGUISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO
GOTO- LESS PROGRAMMING
We don't know where to GOTO if we don't know where we've COME FROM.
This linguistic innovation lives up to all expectations
R. LAWRENCE CLARK*

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/358027.358043
Reprinted courtesy of Datamation Magazine.
(C) by Technical Publishing Co., a Dun & Bradstreet Co., 1984.
All Rights Reserved.

*The author is indebted to G. E Groner and N.A. Palley for a valuable
discussion which took place in New Haven, Conn.