'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:24 AM <snip> For me all the computers I had access to used punch cards. The computers used 029 but the punches that were easiest to get to were 026's (with printed instructions for translating the differences posted on the punches). I was working in a computer-lab for an oil company that used 029 punches where I did most of my work. My problem is that while I was still in high-school I was working at the lab and was told that when the work was complete I had to stay in the lab until my shift was over but I could play with the computer if I wanted too. They used an XDS Sigma 5, I went to Xerox to buy the manuals for the computer to learn how to program it. I used Xerox's Fortran manual to learn programming which had a lot of extensions. When I took my first Fortran course I had to "un-learn" the extensions. What was really funny is that I knew nothing about programming and at the time thought all programs were written in Fortran. The manuals were very technical so I went to a book store to find an easier book. I found the perfect book, it was named "Basic Programming" :-) I was cheap so I translated the Basic program examples to Fortran. Randy www.s100-manuals.com