Harvard vs. vonNeuman

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Wed Sep 29 08:22:03 CDT 2004


At 04:46 PM 9/28/2004, Paul Koning wrote:
> Ron> I know in C it is possible to pass an address of a function to a
> Ron> function, that's not really what I mean.
>
>I think the answer is "usually not".  C is an exception, as you
>noted.  

There were/are C interpreters, too - Gimpel C-terp comes to mind,
which I used under DOS way back in 1895 - oh wait - 1985 or so.  
I can't remember if it had such a self-modifying extension.

- John




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