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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Should internet support software be written in Ada?
Date: 1995/03/28
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Date: 1995-03-28T00:00:00+00:00
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Hello, looks like a goto debate is about to start. It always surprises me
how many people react so defensively at the idea of a goto. Most peculiar.
Of course gotos are very rarely used.
Of course they are sometimes useful and appropriate.

In my experience it is a total waste of time to try to convnice people
of this if they are dead set against gotos, it's like trying to argue
religeon. For me, if someone doesn't see that gotos are sometimes useful,
fine, they are entitled to their [peculiar] opinion, and why should I
bother to try to persaude them otherwise.

No smileys here, none needed really, well maybe one for this last
sentence itself :-)

If you want to save yourself the troubvle of reading a long thread on this,
you could look at the long thread that just completed in comp.lang.cobol
on this very topic (of course on that newsgroup there are also people
who are convinced that mainframes will be around for ever :-)