Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gotos
Message-ID: <2581@geac.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 12:34:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2581
Posted: Thu Apr 14 08:34:50 1988
References: <1988Apr8.183815.3187@utzoo.uucp> <449@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <2575@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The Geac "Oil on Troubled Waters" Dept.
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In article <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Remind me never to buy any software from you guys!

In article <2575@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>You darn well know, if you'd take off your elitist blinders, that...

Gentlemen!
   Look back at the discussion to date before throwing assuming
Henry's being nasty: he was defending a proposal to charge $50.00
per goto, to discourage misuse.  The other gentleman was threatening
to throw him in the duckpond (:-).  This was a good-natured, if
spirited, debate.

   I like the $50.00 scheme, actually, although I do use gotos[1].
I figure it (the $50.00) is a good example of making engineering
tradeoffs explicit.

 --dave (a philosopher on the engineering faculty council...) c-b

[1] In time-critical inner loops to avoid returns, typically. See
    Knuth "Structured Programming with Go To Statements".
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