1. On goto
Hello again -
Re Jiri Babor's comments on 'goto':
I'm pleased to see that remark. "Conventional wisdom" says that 'goto' is
to be avoided or even to be totally banished, because it causes "spaghetti
code".
It does nothing of the sort. "Spaghetti code" is the result of careless
programming and of fast coding without thinking through the problem ahead of
time. Carelessness may be easier when 'goto' is available, and the result
harder to understand, but 'goto' is not the cause of carelessness. It just
lets a programmer get away with being careless, at least for a while.
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
2. Re: On goto
At 05:17 23/09/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm pleased to see that remark. "Conventional wisdom" says that 'goto' is
>to be avoided or even to be totally banished, because it causes "spaghetti
>code".
>It does nothing of the sort. "Spaghetti code" is the result of careless
>programming and of fast coding without thinking through the problem ahead of
>time. Carelessness may be easier when 'goto' is available, and the result
>harder to understand, but 'goto' is not the cause of carelessness. It just
>lets a programmer get away with being careless, at least for a while.
That's true. The GOTO command was very useful, even in games, when dealing
with text, cause you could treat GOTO numbers like pages (or screens),
making it easy to access and very easy to understand. I know this from my
QBasic Text Adventure days... sigh...
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