'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Dave Dunfield]

>> Although the nasal demon theory has been around for a long time, I
>> am certain that this will not be the result here - not of my machines
>> are fitted with appropriate I/O hardware to cause this - but as was
>
>Assuming you're running on machines more modern than the sort of stuff I 
>use, I can't believe you've got real technical and/or service manuals for 
>the hardware. In which case, you can't be _sure_ there's not a nasal 
>demon generator hidden in one of the ASICs.
>
>[:-) of course]

While it's entirely possible that such a device exists in the "black boxes",
my point is that all of my machines lack the physical delivery channel
to conduct the demons to the nazal outlet, so I think the worst that ever
happens is having them ejected from a ventalation opening or disk slot within
the unit itself ... (sometimes when I've been coding long enough in one
stretch I have observed this!)

On the other hand, I am absolutely convinced that the microsloth software
in these boxes has deeply embedded simulation and virtualization of demons
of all kinds, nazal and otherwise - but thats a whole n'other discussion,
and none of the truly possessed boxes are old enough to really qualify for
discussion on this list.

Cheers,
Dave
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