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		ajb 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2 Wheeler was also one of the inventors of the "closed subroutine" AKA function, which had to be implemented via a hack as machines of the time did not include ISA support for "return": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_Jump

mnw21cam 6 months ago [–]

Yes. He also happened to be in residence just down the hall from the lecture theatre at the time.

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