11 May
2005
11 May
'05
10:18 a.m.
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
Right. But the way it's taught generally (at least in my experience and
observation) is that you should expend an hour of thinking and 10 lines of
code development rather than use a simple GOTO which would suffice quite
nicely and be more logical and readable.
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>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at
siconic.com> writes:
Vintage> I miss GOTO. It was unnecessarily expunged from the
Vintage> programmmer's toolbox by elitist academics.
Last I looked it was still alive and well; I just used it in a C++
program a few weeks ago.
That was the first time in many years -- on this topic I agree with
Dijkstra. But I don't believe he ever advocated not using it ever,
only that it should be avoided when there's a better answer, which is
in about 99% of the cases, but not 100%.