OT: Happy Birthday Larry Niven

[Charles Hixson]

Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> Brad Clements wrote:
> 
>> ..
> This is a Motie programmer at work: 
> http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/The-Story-of-Mel.html . See, he uses the 
> same opcodes as both code *and* data at some points... just as an example.
> 

I knew an assembly program like that.  It was a sort that 
composed the sort criteria from the parameters to the call and 
embedded them into an immediate conditional branch instruction 
that got called later from a separate entry point into the same 
routine.

It worked, and it was fast, but UGH!