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From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/08/31
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jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 02:00:51 -0500, Robert Martin <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:
>>
>>Ell wrote in message <35f51e53.48044143@news.erols.com>...
>>>
>>>I would assert that 'goto' spaghetti coding is only a cognitive fit to
>>>you, and handful of others, not most of us.

>>Now, I'll grant you that spaghetti is does not have a good cognitive fit
>>with the reader of the code.  However, the spaghetti had a very good
>>cognitive fit with the *writer* of the code.

>Spaghetti code is disorganized and confused.  To assert that it is never
>a cognitive fit is to assert that the writer's cognitive state is never
>disorganized and confused.  And we all know that isn't true.

If I have been disorganized and confused, you've never been capable of
demonstrating it--nor anyone of your pragmatist cohorts.  So of what
value is your silliness?

Elliott
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