'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Jay West wrote:

> Ya know, I gotta disagree... and this is coming from a programmer who made 
> liberal use of the GOTO statement.

I have to agree with you too; GOTO is just another tool in the
toolbox.  It's useful as hell (eg. error-exit it switch() or
whatever).

A lot of reaction against excessive GOTOs was from the horrible
things early FORTRANs made you do, and macho programmers who
stopped learning early. I have to wonder what the cultures of
optimization that sprung up around drum machines did too.