Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!ism780!darryl From: darryl@ism780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Re: Teaching students with GOTO - (nf) Message-ID: <170@ism780.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-May-84 00:34:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780.170 Posted: Wed May 16 00:34:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 05:15:16 EDT Lines: 10 #R:mcvax:-580600:ism780:14700001:000:389 ism780!darryl May 15 06:22:00 1984 We used to see this quite a bit at the UCLA computer club. The intro to programming class used PL/I (I think they've moved to Pascal now) and it was taught by any graduate student that claimed to have programmed a computer. We would often see programs that lined up in column 7, each if/then having a goto, and labels like "L900:". SIGH. Darryl Richman ...!cca!ima!ism780!darryl