[rescue] Perverse Question

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:04:30PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > I *like* VAX macro.  That's probably bad, isn't it.
> 
> No, VAX MACRO is great.  That's one of my favorite languages.


I had a CS instructor at EWU who liked to say that VAX MACRO was the
first language to contain an entire instruction family named after him.

The root form of the instruction family in question is Subtract One and
Branch ....


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