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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/01
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Actually, flat earth is a good example.  Flat-earth makes a good local
map (for a properly choosen size of local).  It just doesn't extend well
to a global solution.  The same is true of 'goto'.

Ell wrote:
> 
> "Robert Martin" <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:
> 
... 
> >"Cognitive fit" is probably not a very good criterion for good engineering.
> >GOTO has a very good cognitive fit.  So does a flat Earth.
> 
> I would assert that 'goto' spaghetti coding is only a cognitive fit to
> you, and handful of others, not most of us.
> 
> Flat earth is not cognitive to people living on the coast who see the
> mast of a ship appear before the bow.
> 
> Elliott
> --
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