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From: ev_remove_this_anssl21@earthlink.net (Arthur Evans Jr)
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Subject: Re: come from joke
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Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> said:

> 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.  ?
> 

and Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:

> "COME FROM" started as a joke but is no longer one: the Intercal
> programming language uses this construct. See
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/

The magazine Datamation, published AFAIR in the 60s or 70s, was at
the time the magazine to read for IT types. (The term Information
Technology hadn't yet been invented.) They published an article
suggesting this construct, probably in the April (fools) issue one
year. Great hack.

Art Evans