VOTE

jim tate mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 26 23:02:30 UTC 2006


Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> Terry Polzin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> There is actually a goto in many languages, including C, C++ and I 
> think Java, but if you use goto in your C program, your colleagues are 
> liable to break your arms and knee-caps, knock out your teeth and poke 
> out your eyes with a corkscrew and actually get away with it on 
> grounds of justifiable self defence.
>
Boy! Those C people sound like a very bad group .
Back in the "Basic" days of computers they where more friendly.

Jim




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