VOTE

Terry Polzin foxec208 at wowway.com
Mon Dec 25 05:58:25 UTC 2006


On Sunday December 24 2006 23:37, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:11 -0500, jim tate wrote:
> > Jim Collings wrote:
> > > Don't you know any better than to use a goto? ;-)
> > >
> > > Ar, ar. Code humor.
> > >
> > > jim tate wrote:
> > >> Goto website and vote.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2833/
> >
> > You got to understand, I never got past the 8th grade.
>
> Most of us haven't gotten past kindergarden; we don't always share our
> toys and hit one another. <cackles> Like you, we're working on getting
> better. And ole Jim  C. there was just pulling your leg, geek style. A
> "goto" is an old line numbered Basic function. Not used anymore and I
> truly regret it. I got left in the dirt when they dropped the line
> numbers! Merry Xmas Jim. Ric
>
>
goto was also used in COBOL before "perform x thru y" became the common way of 
coding the procedure division.  I think it's also used in fortran as well.
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