Re: The fate of Euphoria
On 9 Nov 2004, at 21:41, Juergen Luethje wrote:
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> Kat wrote:
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> > On 8 Nov 2004, at 20:18, Juergen Luethje wrote:
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> >> Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
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> >> <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.
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> 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.
And you would not be forced to write code using it in Eu either.
> >>> 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.
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> There are actually dozens of languages that have a goto statement.
So if there is anything you want in an otherwise great language, i should tell
you to go find it in another language and leave us alone here?
Kat
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