Infocom on PDP-11

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> >>>>> "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%.

Right.  But the way it's taught generally (at least in my experience and
observation) is that you should expend an hour of thinking and 10 lines of
code development rather than use a simple GOTO which would suffice quite
nicely and be more logical and readable.

-- 

Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger                http://www.vintage.org

[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers   ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at http://marketplace.vintage.org  ]