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benj111 63 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neithe...

TBF, do we actually know how goto the statement was intended to be pronounced?

It's like saying Bob Gif is pronounced with a J so sounds nothing like the file format.....

kbelder 62 days ago | [–]

>It's like saying Bob Gif is pronounced with a J so sounds nothing like the file format.....

You mean, it sounds exactly like the file format...

IAmBroom 63 days ago | [–]

Yes, there is only one reasonable pronunciation of the Fortran code word which is an amalgam of the English words "go to".

GIF is an initialism, with no comparable basis.

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