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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi (LASK))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Gotos are ok (Was Re: IMPLEMENT GOTO ACROSS MODULES IN TURBO PASCAL??)
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.173136.29301@uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:31:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.005523.28337@syacus.acus.oz> ian@syacus.acus.oz (Ian Joyner) writes:
>Prof. Timo Salmi writes-
>
>>No gotos is just a mumbo jumbo myth by programming purists. 
:
>>Don't confuse the ends and means. 
>
>I can't believe I am reading this in this day and age. Dear prof Salmi,
>if you tried writing gotoless programs you would soon realise it is
>practical, but takes a little more effort to begin with, and highly
>profitable. I am talking about programs with 10k to 100k lines of source.
>This is the real world, where you need discipline to make your programs
>work, and maintainable, and modifyable.
:

Even at the risk at sounding arrogant (not my purpose, as yours
probably wasn't to sound so patronizing) please let me point out
that I have written several hundred (yes indeed) Turbo Pascal
applications in the 10K - 100K source code range, most (> 90%) of
them entirely gotoless.  I have nothing against good programming
practices, on the contrary.  I write highly modular code with much
documentation.  But I don't have any silly compunctions to let any
self-imposed puritanism stand in my way when I can write easier or
more efficient code by inserting an occasional helpful goto.  So I
still say, wake up to the real world. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun