Goto [Was Re: Chown ???]

[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/10/2009 11:32 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> The purpose of deprecating use of goto was to avoid the spaghetti code
> that was so prevalent, especially in C.  
spaghetti code is not limited to any language. You can write bad, 
unreadable code in any computer language. At the time Structured 
programming really targeted COBOL which was the primary business 
programming language.

Try the following statement in COBOL (sorry for upper case, but that was 
all we had):
   ALTER R5RETURN to goto FOO
FOO.

    :
R5RETURN.
    GOTO

I had several COBOL programs that had been converted from IBM assembler 
to Burroughs COBOL. What the alter was was essentially an IBM assember 
subroutine call using the BALR (Branch and Link Register). I loved it, 
the old-time Burroughs programmers hated that code, but I knew IBM 
assembler and was not intimidated  by this.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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