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From: rpb@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Brady)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Oh noooooo!!
Summary: Real programmers don't use pascal
Message-ID: <10756@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 03:25:34 GMT
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Reply-To: rpb@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Brady)
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	Of course if someone said it before I was born this means it must
be true. That's why I never use gotos when not on airplanes on a flat planet.
Sorry, but Dijkstra was wrong. How can you attempt to write a program that
will be optimized in machine code by using constructs that are alien to 
machine code? The only validity I can lend to the abhorrence for gotos so 
prevalent today is that they are misused by beginning programmers. This does
does not mean in any way that I should not be able to use them.

> "More recently I discovered why the use if the GOTO  statement
> has such disastrous effects..."


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|  Robert Brady       | rpb@dasys1.UUCP                                      |
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