I believe that John von Neumann or one of the other pioneers of computing thought at one time that the possibility of self-modifying programs was a huge advance made possible by stored-program computers. The program itself could be data!
But then someone proved that anything you could do by modifying the program could be done in other ways and people decided that there were lots of downsides to changeable code. On 7/9/2012 3:36 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > On 7/9/2012 3:10 PM, Al Lorona wrote: >> When John KU4AF came up with the original idea on 1 July I was going to post >> that this was one of the greatest ideas to come from the group in the past >> two >> years. Very elegant. And then Rich took it to a higher level. Thanks to both >> of >> you. > > Possibly the universe is circular in some way. I thought self-modifying > code disappeared around 1960 following the invention of index registers. > Now it seems to be back. :-) Very neat trick, John. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 > - www.cqp.org -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
