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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: "Robert Martin" Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/04 Message-ID: <6soqak$4vp$1@hirame.wwa.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 387836085 References: <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <904556531.666222@miso.it.uq.edu.au> <6sgror$je8$3@news.indigo.ie> <6sh3qn$9p2$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6simjo$jnh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35eeea9b.2174586@news.erols.com> <6sjj7n$3rr$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35f055a5.1431187@news.erols.com> <6sjnlu$83l$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6skfs7$2s6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6snpvb$e6f$1@hirame.wwa.com> <42OH1.2$vl.24707107@newsreader.digex.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: WorldWide Access - Midwestern Internet Services - www.wwa.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ell wrote in message <42OH1.2$vl.24707107@newsreader.digex.net>... >In comp.object Robert Martin wrote: > >: Joe Gwinn wrote in message ... >:> >:>So, the whole 1970s debate about structured programming (and thus GOTOs) >:>reduced to the fond hope that if we tied the hands of those lost-puppy >:>programmers, they would no longer be lost, and would then think ahead and >:>write good code. > >: Negative. That is not the point, nor ever was the point. The point of >: structured programming was not the elimination of GOTO. Indeed, you can >: write perfectly structured programs with GOTO. The point of structured >: programming was to recusively form the structure of an algorithm using units >: that have a single-entry and a single exit. > >Please show us a quote by Dahle and Dijkstra which states that se/se is >*the* key concept of structured programming. Elliott, I can't help it if you are too lazy to go look up the references I've given you; and I've given you plenty. It seems clear that you know very little about structured programming, and that you have no interested in learning more. Robert C. Martin | Design Consulting | Training courses offered: Object Mentor | rmartin@oma.com | Object Oriented Design 14619 N Somerset Cr | Tel: (800) 338-6716 | C++ Green Oaks IL 60048 | Fax: (847) 918-1023 | http://www.oma.com "One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'" -- Carl Sagan