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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/08/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 386423450 References: <902934874.2099.0.nnrp-10.c246a717@news.demon.co.uk> <6r1glm$bvh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6r9f8h$jtm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6renh8$ga7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6rfra4$rul$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35DBDD24.D003404D@calfp.co.uk> <6sbuod$fra$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35f51e53.48044143@news.erols.com> <6sdiav$e0g$1@hirame.wwa.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 904569487 209.98.6.59 (Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:18:07 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:18:07 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 02:00:51 -0500, Robert Martin wrote: > >Ell wrote in message <35f51e53.48044143@news.erols.com>... >> >>I would assert that 'goto' spaghetti coding is only a cognitive fit to >>you, and handful of others, not most of us. > >Now, I'll grant you that spaghetti is does not have a good cognitive fit >with the reader of the code. However, the spaghetti had a very good >cognitive fit with the *writer* of the code. Spaghetti code is disorganized and confused. To assert that it is never a cognitive fit is to assert that the writer's cognitive state is never disorganized and confused. And we all know that isn't true. -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. -- A.N. Whitehead