12 May
2005
12 May
'05
10:22 p.m.
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Jay West wrote:
Ya know, I gotta disagree... and this is coming from a
programmer who made
liberal use of the GOTO statement.
I have to agree with you too; GOTO is just another tool in the
toolbox. It's useful as hell (eg. error-exit it switch() or
whatever).
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.