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

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Neil Johnson <nej22 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [OT] [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:48:17 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.58.0402042042040.19242 at orange.csi.cam.ac.uk>

> Hi,
> 
> > > Eliminating the GOTO is Political Correctness applied to software.
> >
> > Exactly! Anyone disagreeing can read Prof. Knuth's excellent discussion
> > about it.
> 
> Remember, though, that Don is at (or very near) the top of the knowledge
> pile of computer science, so he may be able to comprehend goto's in a safe
> and sane way.  But just because Don can does not mean everyone can.

Don brings on a wide palette of arguments in a very readable form. It is a good
read and makes you think about other aspects of structuring code beyond that of
using goto:s. I would recommend it even to fairly newbie people, since they
can learn about structure when reading it.

Don on the other hand went another direction than the people a few miles away
from him (Xerox Parc) in relation to structure of code, but I think it is more
a complementary fashion these days.

> Neil
> (enjoying the debate, but trying hard to stay out of it!)

... and you failed!

Cheers,
Magnus - who think that this topic seems to be decaying off quickly enought...