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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
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Subject: Re: Teaching students with GOTO
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Date: Sun, 13-May-84 14:45:52 EDT
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>But I pity his students: his sample [Fortran] programs
>were about 1/5 to 1/4 "goto"s.

I knew a lecturer who used to teach Algol 60 in the same way:
for the then part of an if statement he would only use a goto.
When his department decided to move to Pascal, he even did the same there!
He would teach his students first to declare a healthy supply of labels,
and then program the algorithm. He was very upset the day he discovered
that the compiler generated a jump over the then part (thus a jump over a jump)
rather than negating the test and directly jumping to the destination.