On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 09:26 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
> This notion was later reified by Dijkstra's epigoni into
> an interdiction: all GOTOs as bad in all circumstances.
"Epigone", what a great word.
In my undergraduate days, in the immediate wake of Dijkstra's CACM
letter, acquaintances of mine complained that their COBOL programs
containing:
READ MYFILE AT END GOTO END-OF-JOB
were being instantly returned as unacceptable: no GOTOs allowed.
Identical code resubmitted as:
READ MYFILE AT END PERFORM END-OF-JOB
were deemed correct. Argh.
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David Andrews
A. Duda & Sons, Inc.
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