On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:02, 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. > >Jim Nah, its all propaganda from the "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with technospeak" crowd. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
