On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 19:44 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > I have to cut OS developers some slack on GoTo's , but have you ever tried to debug someones code that used goto's? expecially after the third or forth round of "bug fixes" by unrelated developers? Especially medium to large projects (those over a few thousand lines of code.) Spaghetti code is often a very polite term to describe it at that point. I had the great misfortune to work on a system that could ONLY be programmed in BASIC. No fun! Slightly more enjoyable than gum surgery without nerve blocking. But I do also agree that a goto can be a very useful bit of code. However I have to agree with Kernigan and Ritchie. Please minimize its use. I personally rank goto's as on a par with that oxymoron "self documenting code". JMHO! Regards, Les H
