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From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results
Date: 1997/11/26
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In article <65gaoj$f8u$1@helios.crest.nt.com>,
Kaz Kylheku <kaz@helios.crest.nt.com> wrote:
>How recently have you come across a program that was rotten due to the abuse of
>goto? Is this really a valid concern?

A friend of mine has been working with code like that.

The author spent a week or two insisting that my friend's code was
at fault for not opening files correctly.

Files with names like
	"c:\temp\foo.tmp"
no less.

So, yes, there still is shoddy spaghetti code out there.

-s
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