Infocom on PDP-11

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, John Foust wrote:

> Speaking as that voice from the future, reading ALGOL makes
> me say "You don't want to do it that way."  GOTO had not yet
> been exorcised.  Did I see a computed goto, where the expression
> calculates the label?  Eeek.  Certainly it was a step forward,
> but we've also learned a lot since then.  When people complain
> that computer languages haven't changed much, remind them
> of the stuff that's fallen out of recommended practice.

I miss GOTO.  It was unnecessarily expunged from the programmmer's toolbox
by elitist academics.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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