[OT] [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[TIm Daugard]

> The point about the defamation of goto was to reduce the THEN current over-
> usage of it, which WAS (and still can be) a main obstacle to a structured
> programming style.


WBW (way back when) the problem with goto's was moving destinations. Same with
the jmp in assy. If you use a goto, you had to ensure the code you were going to
was there.

Another problem was ensure that it was safe to delete unwanted (unneeded) code.
It was easy to destroy a program by removing code that didn't appear to do
anything and then discover that it was there to correct the one time that you
didn't want to reinitialize something.

I was so glad to try C - even though I stopped programming after I started using
80286 PCs. It was much easier to structure than basic and ML.

Tim Daugard
cringing while waiting for this topic to move off to neverland.