Re: The fate of Euphoria

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On 8 Nov 2004, at 20:18, Juergen Luethje wrote:

> 
> 
> Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > My biggest beef with the goto statement is that it is usally highly abused,
> > sometimes to the point where the program is literally unreadable, by the
> > time
> > you figure out where all those jumps are going to, you could have totally
> > rewritten an application just like it.
>
> I agree.

Then you both are misusing it.
 
> > We really don't want to start the goto wars of 4 or 5 years ago on here,
> > it tended to get pretty nasty, and ending up with each side pretty much
> > saying, this is my opionion and I'm sticking to it, as stuborn as I am.
> 
> I agree. However, people who enjoy crying "goto,goto" in public at least
> 3 times a month, should not be surprised, when they'll get some replies.

I am not surprised to get a reply, but i have been coding in higher level 
languages since 1979, and various assy before and after. I still wish to have 
a goto at my disposal.

Kat

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