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From: gaynor@topaz.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The Real World
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 03:12:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 03:12:14 1987
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Dave Worley (drw@cullvax.UUCP) writes something like:
> After all the railing about structured programming, oddly enough,
> many "academic" languages still retain a goto-like construct.

I can see the lid flying off of Pandora's box with this one.  The goto
statement has it's uses.  Unfortunately, is also has some much-more-
popular abuses.

Silver

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