On Wednesday 27 December 2006 08:50, Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
And that's dead on too, Les. Years ago I went through an amiga program
full of goto's and buggier than a 10 day old carcass, changing every goto
name into something I could remember. I found and fixed 7 or 8 bugs and
made a stable program out of it that way, but before I was done I
questioned every aspect of the authors breeding. That was back when I
had CommodeDoor stuff under the desk... Seems like yesterday but it was
probably in the early 90's.
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Les Mikesell
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