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Re: The fate of Euphoria

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 09, 2004
• 539 views

Kat wrote:

> 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.

LOL. I don't use goto at all. That might be "misusing" from your point
of view.
Before I discovered Euphoria, I used PoerBASIC, which has a goto
statement. But I never used it, because I wanted to write good readable
code, and also I didn't need it at all.

>>> 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.

There are actually dozens of languages that have a goto statement.

Regards,
   Juergen