'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:13 PM
<snip>
> Sorry, I must have read it out of order :)
> My point was that the language should always
> have defined order, regardless of what the compiler
> was interpreting. Maybe there is something basically
> flawed in the concept of that method of interpreting!
> The basic concept of a computer language is to define
> the operations you'd like done in order! I know that
> one could break the sequence into several pieces to
> enforce order but I consider it a serious flaw that
> one has to be careful about how it interprets order.
> I consider order to be one of the most fundamental
> concepts of programming. Most everything else is just
> nice features.
> I repeat, there are languages that do not have ambiguous
> order issues.
> Dwight

No all languages of any complexity have ambiguous elements.  What is 
important is what is unambiguous.

A good programmer learns the limits and works within them.


Randy
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