Infocom on PDP-11 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 May 2005

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 From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>

On Wed, 11 May 2005, John Foust wrote:

  At 10:12 AM 5/11/2005, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
 I miss GOTO.  It was unnecessarily expunged from
the programmmer's toolbox
by elitist academics. 
 It's a tool.  Why, I discussed this with a "Sam Ismail" back in 1999:

This just goes to show how brainwashed I've become with regards to the use
of GOTO's ;)

I'm going to stick a GOTO into some code at an inappropriate place today
just to spite the Man!

Hi
 It just doesn't fit nicely with things like memory allocation,
scoping and pointers. It still has a place in error and
exception handling. I guess one is suppose to handle such things
in assembly. This is not a high level function?
 How can one make a system robust and not consider the need
for such things?
Dwight