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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Continuations
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:59:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:31:26 -0600, John Savard wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:50:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> One thing that is difficult to do with them is arbitrary gotos. (I
>> consider that a feature, not a bug.)
> 
> It's a bug.
> If a programming language wants to disallow arbitrary gotos in order to
> promote better quality code writing, that's great.
> But the machine language of a computer has got to allow _any_ language
> to be implemented on it. Including C, or old-style FORTRAN. Otherwise,
> one doesn't have a general-purpose machine.

It only has to be Turing-equivalent (or Lisp-equivalent) to be a “general-
purpose” machine. There’s nothing in that criterion that requires gotos.