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Re:Loop Exits and Structured Programming: Reopening the Deba... by nickpsecurity on Monday June 12, 2017 @11:40PM (#14542724)
Nah, hardware is more like dataflow or flow-based programming. Maybe functional programming, too. Goto is jumping to arbitrary, imperative code in RAM with an address and no regard for current state. There's possibly something in hardware like it but default stuff I saw in books were more like FSM model focused on data flows.
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Re:Loop Exits and Structured Programming: Reopening the Deba... by Symmetry on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:56PM (#14546963)
You're right that I should have said "At the level of the software as understood by the hardware" or something instead.
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