'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Allison wrote:

> 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.

My high school compsci teacher introduced me to "structured programming"
in BASIC, and I accepted it, but it still seemed to stifle my creativity.
In the second semester he forced me into Pascal.  Let's face it: the UCSD
Pascal system just sucks.  I was willing to go along with it and learn
Pascal until one day I put in the wrong disk during a proscribed disk
swap and, instead of having proper error recovery, the OS proceeded to
overwrite my disk with something else, losing all my source code.  I swore
off Pascal from that moment on.

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