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From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/08/31
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:50:42 GMT, Ell <ell@access.digex.net> wrote:
>jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 02:00:51 -0500, Robert Martin <rmartin@oma.com> 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.
>
>If I have been disorganized and confused, you've never been capable of
>demonstrating it--nor anyone of your pragmatist cohorts.  So of what
>value is your silliness?

I was under the impression that were discussing novice programmers.
Why do you assume that I meant you?

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