Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!mcs.kent.edu!VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!r3jjs From: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Error Handling Message-ID: <703@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> Date: 1 Oct 90 19:43:16 GMT References: <837@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> Reply-To: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio Lines: 19 In article otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: > >Remember, rules like "no GOTOs" are inventions of Pascal weenies, and I >wouldn't call them golden :-) >Simplistic rules like this are supposedly a alternative to using common >sense in programming (no smiley here). They are human inventions, they >didn't come down from the mountain engarved in stone tablets. > I have to agree, those who flame your (or my) use of GOTOs should try to program on an 8088 or a 6502 based machine in assembly. These programmers know how nice GOTOs are (since often no nice alts exist). Although I do not feel that GOTOs should be over used. Since C (and PASCAL) provide reasonable looping controls and if statements, the need for GOTOs declines nicely. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- r3jjs@vax1.cc.uakron.edu