'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Tom Jennings]

>> 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.

On Fri, 13 May 2005, woodelf wrote:

> 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.

So what exactly are you complaining about? :-)