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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/31
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In article <JTCG1.566$H52.143421@client.news.psi.net> "Frank Adrian" <frank_adrian@firstdatabank.com> writes:

 > Again, the tasks you mention should be subsumed by code generators or
 > higher-level design packages, not wasting programmers' time wondering if
 > they got the goto in (and pointing to) the right place.

   A fine point of view for an application developer.  But there are
those of us who build tools like compilers, scanner generators, parser
generators, etc.  Your code may not have gotos, and my code may not
have gotos, but when you use my tools to generate your code, don't be
surprised to find occasional (or not so occasional) gotos.



--

					Robert I. Eachus

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