11 May
2005
11 May
'05
12:52 p.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>
On Wed, 11 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
Hi
It just doesn't fit nicely with things like memory allocation,
scoping and pointers. It still has a place in error and
exception handling. I guess one is suppose to handle such things
in assembly. This is not a high level function?
How can one make a system robust and not consider the need
for such things?
Dwight
At 10:12 AM 5/11/2005, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
This just goes to show how brainwashed I've become with regards to the use
of GOTO's ;)
I'm going to stick a GOTO into some code at an inappropriate place today
just to spite the Man!
I miss GOTO. It was unnecessarily expunged from
the programmmer's toolbox
by elitist academics.
It's a tool. Why, I discussed this with a "Sam Ismail" back in 1999: