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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: Gotos are ok (Was Re: IMPLEMENT GOTO ACROSS MODULES IN TURBO PASCAL??)
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Date: 18 Jan 91 14:14:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.205508.16059@massey.ac.nz> T.Moore@massey.ac.nz (T. Moore) writes:
>
>I don't think you are as far apart as you think. The operative word is
>underlined above. If possible, a program should be tree structured which
>essentially means not using spaghetti code. 

I don't think a program should be tree structured.  Perhaps a routine should
be, but certainly not a whole program.  Programs should be onion-shaped: a
few routines at the top for general control, widening out into specialized
fairly high level routines for specific tasks, and then narrowing in again to
a common library of low-level routines, to maintain a constant interface
to the user and the data.

Duncan Murdoch