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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Use of 'goto'
Date: 1997/07/03
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Seymour J said

<<A false conclusion from a false premise, even if you allow use of "pons
asinorum" (B, A=>B, therefore A). Spaghetti code need not use GOTO, and
some of the worst examples I've seen did not.
>>


Well you perhaps have some definition of spaghetti. it is not exactly
a technical term. But certainly in most languages you cannot create
irreducible control structures without using a goto.