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From: jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English)
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Subject: Re: The final word on GOTO (Don't I wish)
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Date: 17 Sep 89 06:59:52 GMT
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mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I would consider a goto harmful IF and ONLY IF it produced a bug in a program.

How about a bunch of goto's that rendered the code
totally unreadable?  Have you seen the recent posting
of the permutation algorithm translated from Fortran?
That's what's considered harmful about it.

--Joe English

  jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu