VOTE

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 02:27:59 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 18:02 -0500, jim tate wrote:
> 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.

No kidding, they rarely prosecuted. <smirks> Ric

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