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[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 08:50, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Gene Heskett 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.
>>
>> Nah, its all propaganda from the "if you can't dazzle them with
>> brilliance, baffle them with technospeak" crowd.
>
>Or ranting from someone who had to maintain code with thousands of
>goto's to targets not visible on the same page and mostly slight
>spelling variations of the same word.   It is easy to lose the logic
>if you can't track the program flow.

And that's dead on too, Les.  Years ago I went through an amiga program 
full of goto's and buggier than a 10 day old carcass, changing every goto 
name into something I could remember.  I found and fixed 7 or 8 bugs and 
made a stable program out of it that way, but before I was done I 
questioned every aspect of the authors breeding.  That was back when I 
had CommodeDoor stuff under the desk...  Seems like yesterday but it was 
probably in the early 90's.

>--
>   Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com

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