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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cf677878aa77e0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-17 10:13:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B54722D.E2BE7EA6@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an infinate loop References: <3B4F2962.25BB60FF@boeing.com> <3B4F758B.197CA145@boeing.com> <9iv0ce$3d3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:13:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:13:18 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10078 Date: 2001-07-17T17:13:18+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > IIRC, the argument was that other languages had attempted to eliminate the > goto in their design, but that typically the first enhancement made was to > throw the goto back in. The argument followed that Ada could try to spit > into the wind and eliminate the goto for all sorts of computer-sciency > reasons, but inevitably enough people would want it for enough good reasons > that it should just get included in the language from the start. As with > other language features, Ada at least attempted to make the goto more safe > by restricting some of the things you could jump into and out of. I think that Ada avoided the goto by making the goto "labels" so ugly, that any self respecting programmer would do his best to avoid it! Warren. > On the > whole, I think it was pretty successful - you almost never hear of anybody > saying "I'd love to use Ada, but because of all the restrictions on the goto > statement, I just can't make it work for my app..." :-) > > MDC > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg