Re: an infinate loop

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

IIRC, the argument was that other languages had attempted to eliminate the
goto in their design, but that typically the first enhancement made was to
throw the goto back in. The argument followed that Ada could try to spit
into the wind and eliminate the goto for all sorts of computer-sciency
reasons, but inevitably enough people would want it for enough good reasons
that it should just get included in the language from the start. As with
other language features, Ada at least attempted to make the goto more safe
by restricting some of the things you could jump into and out of. On the
whole, I think it was pretty successful - you almost never hear of anybody
saying "I'd love to use Ada, but because of all the restrictions on the goto
statement, I just can't make it work for my app..." :-)

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"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
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>
> My first introduction to Ada was watching videotapes of the Ada Launch
> presentations by IBF and reading copies of their slides. I have no idea
> how you could get this today. They did say that goto was in the language
> primarily to support translation from languages such as FORTRAN. Lucky
> for the state machine with goto people that they were interested in
> supporting translation from other languages.
>