'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
spc at conman.org
Fri May 13 12:38:51 CDT 2005
It was thus said that the Great John Hogerhuis once stated:
>
> Today all you can do is trade a specification language for a
> programming language. I think the programming language is the most
> succinct, clear, and unambiguous specification language imaginable.
> Almost always each construct has one and only one interpretation. You
> cannot say anything in a programming language that cannot be done.
> This is more clear on a small language like C or Forth or assembler
> than it is in something like Perl or even C++. But true nonetheless
> for those languages as well.
So, to tie this in with the Zen Koan threads, what is the result of
int i = 0;
printf("%d %d %d\n",i++,i++,i++);
(That's C code, just to let you know).
-spc (Who knows the answer and is driving you towards the murkier parts of
the C specification ... )
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