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I have to agree completely with this assessment. The article should address What not How. The (historical) assembly language examples, in particular, are completely over the top. Could the author perhaps place them in an article outside Wikipedia and make a reference to that? Airsplit (talk) 08:51, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing "historical" about Assembler language and the example in the article is just as valid for Z/Architecture (as stated). Since the techniques are not well known, the detail is required to demonstrate its value I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.211.5.57 (talk) 13:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The assembly language example is too complicated and should be removed. For that matter the C example is overly complicated as well; should be simplified. In particular, examples should not rely on code comments to instruct the reader. This is not a programming textbook. Stevebroshar (talk) 22:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Needs context (i.e. CICS)

I think this entry is fairly specific to control tables as used in IBM's CICS transaction processing systems.

The article should be perhaps be titled Control Table(CICS). I note, though, that a lot of the information here seems to be covered on the CICS page CICS 137.79.6.250 (talk) 23:06, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know where you are getting the CICS reference from. Not that I know what CICS is ;) But, this seems to be about something rather general in nature; a programming pattern. That said, I don't understand what exactly it is describing. Is it just a lookup table? ... after some digging I found https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/nsm/61.1?topic=features-control-tables. So, control table is an IBM mainframe thing. But... I think this article is talking about a general programming pattern. Stevebroshar (talk) 22:44, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is this about?

I have heard of table-driven design before. My understanding of that it entails a table of info that is used to direct execution; as each line of the table is executed. It's basically an super simple language for an interpreter to process. But, this article seems to be talking about lookup table. Is a control table another word for lookup table? Or is it table-driven design; interpreter line-by-line? Stevebroshar (talk) 22:47, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]