13 May
2005
13 May
'05
2:18 a.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
A lot of reaction against excessive GOTOs was from the horrible
things early FORTRANs made you do, and macho programmers who
stopped learning early. I have to wonder what the cultures of
optimization that sprung up around drum machines did too.
Well it has come back to haunt us since random access memory
has got replaced by cashe and deep pipelined cpu's. Try writing
a loop and see what happens ... No wait a loop has the dreaded GOTO.