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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gary Scott Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/29 Message-ID: <38E2333B.2109F2BB@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 603925786 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com> <8brfm4$4uc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E240D1.DB36C983@quadruscorp.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: LMTAS Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > > Robert Dewar wrote: > > I disagree, noone teaches goto's in any beginning programming > > courses, for good reasons. Anyone desparately wanting to write > > gotos has a peculiar starting point. > > > I agree. However, I rather got the impression that the original poster > was an experienced programmer who was used to doing things a particular > way based on what other languages normally do. I wouldn't teach gotos as > an introductory style, but if a Fortran weenie wanted to know how it was > done in Ada, I'd show him and advise him that there were better ways. > This Fortran jab sounds like someone unfamiliar with Fortran 95. Fortran is now a general purpose language with most of the modern constructs that you might require. Many current Fortran users write quite high quality code, even non-CS engineers and scientists.