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Re: Fast appending and sorting of alot of short strings

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

codepilot Gmail Account wrote
[quoting order rearranged]:

> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:01:05 +0200, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Kat wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Perfect example of why global variables are sometimes a necessity for
>>> speed, even if some people claim they are bad programming practice.
>>> Ditto for "goto". Thanks, Pete.
>>
>> We don't know where to GOTO if we don't know where we've COME FROM.
>> http://www.fortran.com/fortran/come_from.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Juergen
>
> What is goto good for, that for while prcedure function routineid cant do?

No doubt that 'goto' is the most important and cleanest construct in
higher programming languages, but 'come frome' is even more important,
and its cleaner than clean.
Read THE TRUTH[tm] at <http://www.fortran.com/fortran/come_from.html>.

Regards,
   Juergen

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