In 1972, as a new hire, I was given the task of maintaining an entire COBOL application that was written with altered gotos and not a single perform.
When I asked why, I was told that their standard was to use altered gotos instead of performs, because they were more efficient. This ruling was later reversed, and whenever I had to do maintnenace or even debug one of those horrors, I would typically do a complete rewrite, based on the original program specs. This was much faster that trying to bebug "clever" use of alters. Randy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement >Programmers HATE altered GOTO's I hated them 35 years ago. Hopefully they were never used in new code after that. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
