11 May
2005
11 May
'05
8:12 a.m.
On Wed, 11 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
Speaking as that voice from the future, reading ALGOL
makes
me say "You don't want to do it that way." GOTO had not yet
been exorcised. Did I see a computed goto, where the expression
calculates the label? Eeek. Certainly it was a step forward,
but we've also learned a lot since then. When people complain
that computer languages haven't changed much, remind them
of the stuff that's fallen out of recommended practice.
I miss GOTO. It was unnecessarily expunged from the programmmer's toolbox
by elitist academics.
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