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RE: About GOTO (was RE: fixed windows)

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 06, 2003
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David Cuny wrote:
 
> Peter Williems wrote:
> 
> >    I'm not saying that goto is evil (although every informatics
> >    teacher will tell you) but the availability of a goto command
> >    generally does more bad than good, so there is a reason why many
> >    languages don't implement it.
> 
> I suspect the reasons are more pragmatic.

   I do agree with you that the (snipped) examples you gave do
   indeed illustrate that. But I still think it also has a lot to
   do with coding philosophy (not sure if I spelled that right 

   I suspect that Wirth's teachings have a profound inpact on
   todays language developments. He has always been advocating
   structured programming in his languages and he did develop
   Pascal as a structured oponent to basic. So I'm fairly sure
   that in the case of Pascal the omission of goto in the language
   has a lot to do with his philosophy.

   And as he has also written several books on language design and
   compiler development I suspect his beliefs to be visible in
   several (read: a lot of) programming languages.

> On the down side, neither of these solutions are as simple as a GOTO.

   Agreed, but none of these solutions leave room to do "spagetty"
   programming either 

   BTW, I realy enjoy your insightfull replies, I'm learning
   new things constantly. 

Hans Peter Willems