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From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Gotos are okay, but what about COME-FROM's??
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.175604.34@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 25 Jan 91 05:15:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.112445.3829@kcbbs>
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This is all getting very silly. Reminds me of the COME-FROM that was suggested
after an even sillier discussion of goto's. Anyone remember that?? Since this
topic never seems to die, for those wishing to skip boring postings on the
subject, here's by method:

If the person...                 Then...
Hates GOTO but likes EXIT/BREAK  Ignore the idiot, he can't see the similarity.
Hates GOTO (no word of EXIT)     Probably an even greater idiot, who hasn't
                                 even heard of EXIT or BREAK
Hates GOTO and EXIT and BREAK    Probably never written a real program. Ignore!
Likes GOTO but not EXIT/BREAK    Great idiot who only knows BASIC, listen to
                                 them very carefully - might be your boss!

(Purely humerous; no similarity to persons living or dead, etc) 
Seriously, making hard and fast generalizations about people like this is as
bad as generalisations about programs with GOTO's. In some classes of problem,
a goto is very good, and simplifies the program (often in error conditions or
process control applications). But most often, a goto simply indicates sloppy
thinking.