From: Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Should internet support software be written in Ada?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 14:24:42 GMT
Date: 1995-03-27T14:24:42+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3l6hra$h05@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fjm.75.000A7010@ti.com
Fred J. McCall <fjm@ti.com> writes
> In article <3ks2o3$bab@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
> >Now, I too have seen some bad C code in my time. But this is the first I have
> >EVER seen anyone actually use a "goto". In a language with a good selection of
> >looping constructs like C, there is NO excuse for this. (Well, perhaps
> >stupidity...)
>
> T'would seem that this commodity is actually on your part. Depending on the
> application and the structure of the problem, there are times when 'goto' is
> the appropriate solution. This sort of 'structured programming' bigotry is
> merely silly and is the sort of thing that leads to code obfuscated by
> numerous loops, tests, and unnecessary control variables.
"Structured Programming Bigotry"? Are you being serious?
Well, in case you are, I'm now curious. At what times is a "goto" an
appropriate solution? The best excuse I ever heard was for simulating exception
handling in a language that didn't support it.
I'm sorry if I'm taking sarcasm seriously, but I didn't see any smileys.
>
> >There, That ought to get the flames going!
>
> Hope you're happy now. Don't bother to reply. The very comment convinces me
> you don't know enough to have a valid opinion.
Oooh! Looks like I was right.
T.E.D.
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1995-03-17 0:24 Should internet support software be written in Ada? Bill Brooks
1995-03-17 8:47 ` Anthony Shipman
1995-03-19 22:06 ` David Weller
1995-03-23 15:05 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-24 10:26 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-27 9:50 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-03-27 19:43 ` State machines and Goto's (was Re: Should internet support software be written in Ada?) Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-27 23:14 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1995-03-29 0:00 ` Dan
1995-04-01 0:00 ` Mike White
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Mike White
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1995-04-20 0:00 ` CS teachers who can't code their way outta a paper bag Richard A. O'Keefe
1995-03-27 14:24 ` Theodore Dennison [this message]
1995-03-28 0:00 ` Should internet support software be written in Ada? Robert Dewar
1995-03-28 9:32 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-29 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1995-04-07 0:00 ` State machines and Goto's (was Re: Should internet support software be written in Ada?) Wes Groleau
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Firth
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-04-19 0:00 ` George Haddad
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` State machines and Goto's (was Re: Sho Brian Hanson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` State machines and Goto's (was Re: Should internet support software be written in Ada?) Bill Winn
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-22 23:08 ` Should internet support software be written in Ada? Keith Thompson
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Problems with proofs Brian Harvey
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robin Rowe
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robin Rowe
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Steve Tate
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Apology to Steve Robin Rowe
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Problems with proofs Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robin Rowe
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Larry Kahn
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1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robin Rowe
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Garlington KE
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1995-04-20 0:00 ` What good is halting prob? Max Hailperin
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1995-04-20 0:00 ` Academic CS Losers? Phillip Fanous
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Bill Winn
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1995-04-20 0:00 ` Teaching OO/C++ Philip Machanick
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1995-04-18 0:00 ` What good is halting prob? Jay M Martin
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Steve Tate
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Jay M Martin
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Steve Tate
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Ray Toal
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Randolph Crawford
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robin Rowe
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robin Rowe
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` sxc
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Steve Tate
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Richard Ladd Kirkham
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Richard Ladd Kirkham
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1995-03-06 21:01 Should internet support software be written in Ada? Bennett, Chip (KTR) ~U
1995-03-07 2:35 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
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