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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/23
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In article <01bf9436$9c054880$2c5101be@bthomas4663>,
  "William Thomas" <bthomas@aisvt.bfg.com> wrote:
>
>
> People can say what they may about goto's but I have an Uncle
that owns a
> software company down in Texas. He has more software in the
military
> inventory than most of the large military contractors.  His
customers love
> his stuff, its dead simple to use and solves the needs of the
end user,
> which he claims is the most important aspect of software.
>
> In all his software, which takes several CD's to back up (18
years worth)
> there is not one single 'if then else statement', nore is
there a single
> 'loop statement'.  But there's more goto's than you can shake
a stick at.
>
> I'v tried all the "convert it to Ada arguments", all of the
"people don't
> use goto's" arguments, he just laughs and keeps coding.


Yes, well there are still people writing assembler, but that's
not an argument for writing assembler!


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