OpenEuphoria

Re: voting on GOTO

• Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at yaho??com> Jun 04, 2008
• 808 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> ken mortenson wrote:
> > It is a joy to write algorithms using sequences.  Losing Rob's vision of a
> > simple powerful language is, although expected, disappointing.
> 
> How much simpler can you get than "goto"? Is there a shorter word in another
> language (like Spanish "va") that would be simple enough? You CAN still write
> exactly the same code you have been writing. I can tell you that i have not
> yet used one goto when coding in Euphoria, and you don't haveto in Eu v4
> either.

Not having something might be simpler than having it (you can't get any
shorter than zero letters, although that is not the criteria I'm using.)

As Derek has repeatedly said, paraphrased... what you do in the privacy 
of your own code is your business.

Think of art.  Working with constraints and exercising discipline often 
leads to beauty.  Throwing globs of paint at a canvas is less compelling 
to me.  You may or may not get the analogy, but for those that do it is
profound.  At least, I find it so.


"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman