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From: "Andy Ward" <ajward@adc.metrica.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/08/12
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>   A little quote for c.l.a. readers, from the "goto" pro and cons
>section (reminds me of some threads ;-):
>
>"Finally, the goto was incorporated into the Ada language, the most
>carefully engineered programming language in history. Ada was
>developped long after the arguments on both sides of the goto debate
>had been fully developped, and after considering all sides of the
>issue, Ada engineers decided to include the goto"
>


Ahh... but have you ever found a "good" reason for using it? I have used
goto in C and Pascal in certain rare cases, but I have always found clearer
ways to code these cases in Ada.