'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

On 5/13/05, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote: it Well I don't know how painful I've found it (as an embedded systems programmer). An interrupt is just another event source, albeit one that must be handled with kid gloves. Your program will follow different paths depending on the events inputs to it. Just because you don't understand what has happened if you do a poor job on your interrupt handler doesn't mean that the outcome isn't completely predictable based on analysis of the code and understanding how the machine works. I have heard of systems where a randomness is allowed in: for example, cases where FPGAs + genetic programming are used to evolve an algorithm. It turns out that this can work, but unless you take special measures you will end up with strange dependencies on noise -- John.