'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
woodelf
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Fri May 13 04:18:56 CDT 2005
Tom Jennings wrote:
>
> 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.
Well it has come back to haunt us since random access memory
has got replaced by cashe and deep pipelined cpu's. Try writing
a loop and see what happens ... No wait a loop has the dreaded GOTO.
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