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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
>>Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 11:41:30 AM UTC-3, Keith Thompson wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I found this "Here is the code in C which will delete the executable after execution."
>>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/280067/have-rm-not-report-when-a-file-is-missing
>>
>>Deleting the executable after running it once is certainly valid, but
>>not something you'd usually want to do.
>
>This paradigm was quite common in the early days of computing;
>compile and go where the data deck immediately followed the program
>deck (particularly on systems without disk or with small disk(s)).
>
>The HP-3000 supported compile and go (from cards or from the interactive
>command interpreter) using 'PASS' files.   The logical name $OLDPASS
>referred to an unnamed input temporary file and $NEWPASS to an unamed output temporary
>file - the compiler would write to $NEWPASS, the segmenter (linker) would read from
>$OLDPASS and write to $NEWPASS and $NEWPASS would be executed.
>
>The paradigm fit educational computer science programs quite well in the
>days before disk storage became routinely affordable.

Following up on topic from a few months ago, relative to 8-bit ASCII
character evolution at ANSI, I found the spec I had referred to then:

ANSI X3.41-1974 (AKA FIPS-35)
American National Standard code extension techniques for use with the 7-bit coded character
set of american national standard code for information interchange.

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub35.pdf

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