'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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