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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public From: John Sullivan Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/12/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 295570087 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk [194.222.102.161] References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <3470EF6E.F74@lysator.liu.se> <879863453snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <65gaoj$f8u$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <6616ej$llt@fstgal00.tu-graz.ac.at> Organization: RTFM unincorporated Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <6616ej$llt@fstgal00.tu-graz.ac.at>, ANDREAS LEITNER writes [snip] >Well, in my opinion the need to use a goto is in most (if not all) cases a >sign that the design or the language lacks. (if (!design lacks) language >lacks; :) >I think goto debate is not recent anymore is because the majority of people >have accepted the fact that goto provide unreadable code. Once we got a >"coder" that produced lots of gotos, he was fired not onyl because of gotos >but also because of the fact that a different programmer was able to rewrite >a function without using one goto and also reducing the size of the function >from 60 to 15 lines (as I remember correctly) Amazing how people's attitudes change over the years, isn't it? >From the May/June'94 IEEE Institute, an article about John Backus receiving the Draper Prize for having developed Fortran: "Another of Fortran's breakthroughs was the GOTO statement, which was a uniquely simple and understandable means of structuring and modularizing programs." (Thanks to Seth Breidbart for finding this quote) John Sullivan ------------- remove the dots from the first three (Welsh) words for my real address