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From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/22
Date: 2000-03-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38D947B9.6C50@synquiry.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8barht$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <38D8E9DE.14E93706@quadruscorp.com>,
>   "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:
> 
> > Don't fight the language! Learn to do it "The Ada Way"
> 
> Last I looked, Ada included a goto statement, it is people
> who absolutely forbid goto's who are failing to follow the
> above advice.

I seem to recall that (at least in the "early days") the designers
put the goto statement in Ada due to a belief that there would be
a significant amount of machine generated Ada (presumably from
much higher level problem descriptions).  Anyone with a clue knows
that in this case goto is mighty handy.

/Jon

-- 
Jon Anthony
Synquiry Technologies, Ltd. Belmont, MA 02478, 617.484.3383
"Nightmares - Ha!  The way my life's been going lately,
 Who'd notice?"  -- Londo Mollari




  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-21  0:00 No Go To's Forever! Bill Dale
2000-03-21  0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-21  0:00   ` Bill Dale
2000-03-22  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00     ` Paul Graham
2000-03-22  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Paul Graham
2000-03-23  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00               ` Paul Graham
2000-03-23  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-22  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-22  0:00             ` Michael P. Walsh
2000-03-23  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Michael P. Walsh
2000-03-22  0:00           ` Charles Hixson
2000-04-06  0:00             ` Wes Groleau
2000-04-07  0:00               ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-22  0:00     ` Roger Barnett
2000-03-22  0:00       ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-22  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-21  0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-21  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-03-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-21  0:00     ` Michael P. Walsh
2000-03-21  0:00       ` Andrew Berg
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Wes Groleau
2000-03-22  0:00           ` No Go To's Forever! (I'm sorry I spoke...) dis90072
2000-03-23  0:00             ` tmoran
2000-03-23  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-22  0:00     ` No Go To's Forever! Ken Garlington
2000-03-22  0:00       ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Roger Barnett
2000-03-22  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00         ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-24  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-27  0:00             ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-28  0:00               ` Come From Forever! (was: No Go To's Forever!) Ted Dennison
2000-03-29  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-24  0:00           ` No Go To's Forever! Marin D. Condic
2000-03-25  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-22  0:00   ` Tim Gahnström
2000-03-21  0:00     ` David Starner
2000-03-22  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-21  0:00         ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00           ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-23  0:00       ` Tim Gahnstr�m
2000-03-22  0:00     ` tmoran
2000-03-22  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00         ` tmoran
2000-03-23  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00             ` tmoran
2000-03-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00                 ` tmoran
2000-03-24  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-24  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-16  0:00                     ` Kenneth Almquist
2000-04-17  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-18  0:00                         ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-18  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-18  0:00                           ` David Starner
2000-04-17  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00                 ` Jeff Carter
2000-03-24  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29  0:00                 ` Martin Dowie
2000-03-29  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29  0:00                   ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-01  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-01  0:00                           ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-02  0:00                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-21  0:00                       ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-21  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-24  0:00         ` tmoran
2000-03-22  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-23  0:00   ` Jeff Carter
2000-03-23  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00     ` Michael P. Walsh
2000-03-23  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-22  0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-03-22  0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
2000-03-22  0:00       ` Roger Barnett
2000-03-23  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00           ` Roger Barnett
2000-03-24  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
2000-03-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-23  0:00   ` Chris Morgan
     [not found] ` <01bf9436$9c054880$2c5101be@bthomas4663>
2000-03-23  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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