On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 18:02 -0500, 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.
No kidding, they rarely prosecuted. <smirks> Ric
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