On Friday 10 April 2009 20:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:32 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > The purpose of deprecating use of goto was to avoid the spaghetti code > > that was so prevalent, especially in C. > > <Bzzzt>. Close but no cigar. The problems with Goto were pointed out by > Dijkstra in his famous 1968 letter to CACM "Go To Statement Considered > Harmful", which is several years before C appeared on the scene. (Note > also Knuth's 1974 rebuttal to Dijkstra "Structured Programming with Goto > Statements"; old controversies never die, they just fade away).
Are these letters available electronically? Any links maybe? I'm just curious, would like to read them. Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
