Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Usage of goto's Message-ID: <1990Oct1.173910.21734@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Sep28.121230.17767@NCoast.ORG> <11403@alice.UUCP> <1990Sep30.190344.25031@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 17:39:10 GMT In article <1990Sep30.190344.25031@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes: >> D. E. Knuth: Structured Programming with Goto Statements >> ACM Computing Surveys, January 1974 (I think) > ^^^^^^^ > December 1974. Vol 6, No 4. Do note, though, that a lot of Knuth's "just gotta have a goto" examples go away when looked at through the right tools. For example, his syntax- scanning example clearly shows that he'd never heard of pushback. :-) -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry