'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: 'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
>   From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
>   Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:04:53 -0500
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>Goto's can be bad if they make the code hard to follow but I find that most 
>people write such sloppy code that it's hard to follow anyway as well as 
>making code more complicated trying to avoid goto's.

Basic is a language that is easy to code badly.  

I'm one of the few that was mostly BASIC and ASM until UCSD P-system
and decided to learn a "structured" language.  I was eye opening the
difference coding learned.  After that I tried writing basic using 
block structure and treating goto and return like Call and JUMP with 
better looking results. I can see the effect it had looking at some 
of my really old code.

I agree with an earlier post.  BASIC improperly can rot your mind, 
it's bad drugs for programmers.  


Allison