Re: goto: it's conceded
ken mortenson wrote:
>
> > One word (or maybe two):
> >
> > GOSUB
>
> Well, that's terse. Let me add a few more. Back in the day, I thought I
> could never live without ON X GOTO, as well as ON X GOSUB. I have matured
> quite a bit since then. The idea of using any of these four today is
> physically loathesome to me. Not to offend, but for a HLL to include these
> would make it a toy language not suitable for serious development. YMMV.
Yes, I wasn't being serious. Your excellent treatise on the evils of spaghetti
code took me back to the days when I wrote a rather large drawing program in a
version of BASIC on my CP/M computer (Microbee 256TC). No mouse.
I encountered all of the problems you mentioned using GOTO, so I gradually
started using GOSUB thinking that might alleviate some of those shortcomings
since you didn't need to know which line to GOTO back to. That's when I first
learned what a stack overflow was 
Gary
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