Re: GOTO's

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:20:32 -0800

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:36:33 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
<g4fgq.regp@ZZZbtinternet.com> wrote:

>
>GOTO's are a positive menace. Any language which allows them is a disgrace
>to mankind's considerable acheivements in that direction.
>
>They constitute abandonment of essential discipline to complete chaos in
>program structure. Helpful only to lazy, soltitary, so-called programmers,
>obtaining money under false pretences, who are unable to remember what its
>all about the next day. But GOTO's are wicked, useless, obstructions to
>bug-finding and maintenance operations carried out by poor unfortunate later
>workers who get all the blame for the enormous costs involved.

Oops, I guess I scooped up about $40 million under dishonorable
conditions. I should give it all back, I suppose.

John