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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,14f7200925acb579 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever! Date: 2000/03/22 Message-ID: <38D8E9DE.14E93706@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 600828634 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D7B41D.B3494C6A@lmco.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 22 Mar 2000 12:43:10 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-22T12:43:10+00:00 List-Id: Bill Dale wrote: > > Never use a GOTO - ever. At all. Anywhere. Period. > > OK, I'll put you down as not interested in working for me. > While I will concede that there are times when a goto might make sense, I'll say this much: I have been writing software in Ada since the original standard was published and it must total up to millions of lines of code by now. Not only have I never once used the goto (except possibly in experimental code designed to illustrate its use) but I have never once encountered it in a fielded, working body of code. Anyone who says they "need" a goto in order to code has probably not given the problem enough thought. Or possibly, they have learned a coding style based on assembler or Fortran and have just never been shown how to code the same things without the goto. Don't fight the language! Learn to do it "The Ada Way" MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m ***PLEASE REMOVE THE "-NOSPAM" PART OF MY RETURN ADDRESS*** Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Because that's where they keep the money." -- Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks. =============================================================