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		mannykannot 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing command And commandfor In HTML It is from a dialect called C-INTERCAL and is written with a space: 'COME FROM' https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/teaching/cs415-fall05/docs/...

twic 9 months ago | [–]

It's also foundational in Threaded INTERCAL, where "multiple COME FROM statements with the same label cause the program to fork separate threads at each COME FROM":

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Threaded_INTERCAL

gmueckl 9 months ago | [–]

Thanks for that correction! I had memorized COME FROM as part of the original Intercal. My mistake.

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