12 May
2005
12 May
'05
6:44 a.m.
Subject: Re: 'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:04:53 -0500
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Goto's can be bad if they make the code hard to follow but I find that most
people write such sloppy code that it's hard to follow anyway as well as
making code more complicated trying to avoid goto's.
Basic is a language that is easy to code badly.
I'm one of the few that was mostly BASIC and ASM until UCSD P-system
and decided to learn a "structured" language. I was eye opening the
difference coding learned. After that I tried writing basic using
block structure and treating goto and return like Call and JUMP with
better looking results. I can see the effect it had looking at some
of my really old code.
I agree with an earlier post. BASIC improperly can rot your mind,
it's bad drugs for programmers.
Allison