On Wednesday 27 December 2006 08:50, Les Mikesell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> goto was also used in COBOL before "perform x thru y" became the >>>>> common way of coding the procedure division. I think it's also >>>>> used in fortran as well. >>>> >>>> There is actually a goto in many languages, including C, C++ and I >>>> think Java, but if you use goto in your C program, your colleagues >>>> are liable to break your arms and knee-caps, knock out your teeth >>>> and poke out your eyes with a corkscrew and actually get away with >>>> it on grounds of justifiable self defence. >>> >>> Boy! Those C people sound like a very bad group . >>> Back in the "Basic" days of computers they where more friendly. >> >> Nah, its all propaganda from the "if you can't dazzle them with >> brilliance, baffle them with technospeak" crowd. > >Or ranting from someone who had to maintain code with thousands of >goto's to targets not visible on the same page and mostly slight >spelling variations of the same word. It is easy to lose the logic >if you can't track the program flow. And that's dead on too, Les. Years ago I went through an amiga program full of goto's and buggier than a 10 day old carcass, changing every goto name into something I could remember. I found and fixed 7 or 8 bugs and made a stable program out of it that way, but before I was done I questioned every aspect of the authors breeding. That was back when I had CommodeDoor stuff under the desk... Seems like yesterday but it was probably in the early 90's. >-- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
