OpenEuphoria

Re: Fast appending and sorting of alot of short strings

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Oct 10, 2004
• 516 views

On 10 Oct 2004, at 1:55, Juergen Luethje wrote:

> 
> 
> 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>.

Heh, i had argued for access to the call stack before, here, to see what point 
in the program called a function, but i didn't know anyone had named such a 
ability.

Kat