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.
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Les Mikesell
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