Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!jlg
From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Fortran (or anything else) is efficient?
Message-ID: <56972@lanl.gov>
Date: 13 Jul 90 21:54:35 GMT
References: <1990Jul12.011358.4130@Stardent.COM>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <1990Jul12.011358.4130@Stardent.COM>, by wright@stardent.Stardent.COM (David Wright @stardent):

> [...]                                               Assigned gotos are an
> abomination, and anybody who uses one should be flogged around the public
> square at high noon.

Assigned GOTOs are no worse than variable pointers in data structuring.
The two concepts _are_ isomorphic after all.

J. Giles