30 points | by gappy 6 days ago
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via https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-o...
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726
Mouse 2002 introduced an Else operator? Did it forget about "If then else considered harmful" from 1975?
I came across this about 10 years ago and was able to port it to Kyan Pascal on the Commodore 64 without much tweaking.
Given its age, I thought this language had a chance to predate the eponymous computer mouse, but nope. It was created a good decade after the first documented reference to computer mice [0].
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse
(2007)
via https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-o...
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726
Mouse 2002 introduced an Else operator? Did it forget about "If then else considered harmful" from 1975?
I came across this about 10 years ago and was able to port it to Kyan Pascal on the Commodore 64 without much tweaking.
Given its age, I thought this language had a chance to predate the eponymous computer mouse, but nope. It was created a good decade after the first documented reference to computer mice [0].
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse
(2007)