From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Michael F. Yoder" Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/14 Message-ID: <378C7858.F43CE2B@decada.zko.dec.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500962810 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> <378B3D39.28B3@cacd.rockwell.com> <378B995C.700FD0A@bridge.bst.bls.com> Organization: Compaq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi Date: 1999-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Steve Horne wrote: > The first program I ever had to maintain was chock full of "ALTER GOTO" > statements. > > Has anyone ever been exposed to that language atrocity? Simple and > understandable? Absolutely not. > > -Steve A friend of mine was a COBOL programmer who worked for a time at Polaroid, and (of course) read their programming standard for COBOL. He told me that the section on the ALTER verb read, in its entirety: "Use of the ALTER verb is punishable by death." -- ---- Michael Yoder