'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Marvin Johnston]

> >> 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.

One of my first programming projects in college was write a program to
printout 26 hands of Bridge ... I was a Bridge major :). Not knowing
enough, I exited one of the Fortran IV loops with a goto. Big mistake!
Finally one of the professors found the problem on a second or third
look after I had shown the code to almost everyone in the department
with no success.

I still like the goto ... just not to exit loops :).