OpenEuphoria

Re: Conceptual problem solved by GOTO

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ya?o?.com> Jun 06, 2008
• 762 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Because the output of the translator is geared for speed; it is not meant to
> > be read by or maintained by humans.
> > 
> > Most code doesn't need to be so highly optimized for the machine. As posted
> > at one of your links "that's the compiler's job".
> >  
> > > Now, I want to take my own domain language used for hospital billings and
> > > initial
> > > hospital claim auditing and translate that to Euphoria, but can I? Not
> > > easily.
> > > It's far easier to just translate to C and use gotos. Now, why not just
> > > do/keep
> > > that? Because it would be far, far easier to use Euphoria as the final
> > > language
> > > instead of dealing with users changing the domain language, triggering a
> > > compilation,
> > > swapping in the .so, etc...
> > > 
> 
> You did not address the rest of my message which was the real reason. As
> Euphoria
> does translating to C, I *need* to do translating to Euphoria. *I* will never
> look at that translated code. domain languages is a very common pattern that
> saves huge amounts of time in many peoples applications.
> 
> Please tell me why I cannot make the same use of goto that C does? Do not say
> that C does it for speed, it does not. goto is used for the ease of the
> translator.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

I never said you couldn't use goto. You can see that I've been relatively
neutral in this discussion and my official vote is "abstain".

However, when I see an argument with which I disagree I still feel compelled to
answer it.

As for you DSL example? I have no idea as I've never written anything in a DSL
and have zero experience in them. Are gotos common in DSLs? If so, why?

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.