Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)

[smize@news.imagin.net (Samuel Mize)]

In article <EBpyKy.J3@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>In article <5nn2fm$11dk$1@prime.imagin.net>,
>Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> wrote:
>>I'm rebeating a dead horse, in order to write up a consensus paper to
>>submit to adahome.  I'll appreciate your input.
>
>I don't quite understand what the point of this is.

I should have included these in my previous reply.

1) Many people seem to be getting a very biased introduction to the
   language.  For instance, I just read a posting from someone whose
   CS instructor said that there is no good reason to use enumeration
   values or arrays, object-oriented methods should be used instead.
   Others are self-teaching as part of their jobs, coming from using
   Fortran or C or whatever.

   I personally think it will be useful to have some of the periodic
   and/or older discussion from comp.lang.ada encapsulated so that
   people who want to know can read the summarized results.

2) Since I'm trying to express a consensus of opinion, it's not
   surprising that the write-up adds nothing new to the discussion.

As I said in my other reply, my main point was just to put a writeup
somewhere so we can tell people "yes, that's a good question -- the
issues are discussed in <URL>".

Nobody replied "This is all covered in XXX," so I have to assume that
there isn't already a good issue-specific write-up to point people at.

Sam Mize

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