I’m completely in favor of disallowing truthy and falsey values, and I hope the core team is never swayed otherwise. Having said that, this claim caught my eye: [image] On the arbitrariness of truth(iness) But we could just as easily have had je and jo (jump if even, jump if odd) as assembly ins…

Assembly: is "jump if not zero" more expressive than "jump if odd"?

lawless-m May 20, 2022, 7:29pm 9

My edit got caught in the split

Bell Labs produced the CARDIAC computer:

“CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation”

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