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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:34:46 +0000
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On 21/11/2024 19:48, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:09:29 +0000, Pancho wrote:
> 
>> GOTO was deprecated before BBC Basic circa 1981. I never really saw it,
>> apart from reasonable GOTO error usages. Wasn't it more a sign of lack
>> of training than a linguistic feature?
> 
> I never understood the goto hate that Dijkstra had. It could be used to
> produce hideous code but has valid uses. I'm amused by the syntactic sugar
> used by many languages to conceal what is obviously a goto under the hood
> amd of you dig far enough you get down to JMP, JNE, and similar opcodes.
> 
Yup.

The real hate was code that was hard to read and debug because flow 
jumped about all over the place.

But you need to have conditional code execution and that means at some 
level a goto, even if its implicit.

if(Bollocks)
	{  // ELSE GOTO  next '}'
	blah();
	}


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