Infocom on PDP-11

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Wed May 11 10:31:58 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:

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

Last I looked it was still alive and well; I just used it in a C++
program a few weeks ago.  

That was the first time in many years -- on this topic I agree with
Dijkstra.  But I don't believe he ever advocated not using it ever,
only that it should be avoided when there's a better answer, which is
in about 99% of the cases, but not 100%.

   paul



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