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RE: fixed windows

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 05, 2003
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Derek Parnell wrote:

> >     I'll repeat my point here: goto is not needed in a language 
> 
> Except Assembler, of course  

    Of course.... and any other Linear language 
 
> And in the same spirit, a construct such as " x += 1" is not needed as 
> well; it just useful sometimes. 

    Agreed again 
 
> My POV is goto is only *needed* to extract the best execution speed out 
> of an application; and this is a very rare thing and must be heavily 
> justified. All other uses of goto are just doomed to cause expensive 
> maintenance times.

    If you are the project manager of a large software project
    you are happy that the used language does not have goto.

> On the other hand, I have no right to dictate how people should code 
> their apps. If they want to make "spaghetti" code, that's their problem. 
> But, I'd kick them off my programming teams .

    I don't want to dictate how people code their apps, unless I'm
    in charge of a project and they are coding for my company.
    Besides that I was just stating my opinion, but it's clear to
    me that you get that Derek 

Hans Peter Willems