Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!wjh12!maynard!campbell
From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gotos
Message-ID: <1073@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 88 02:11:21 GMT
References: <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <2618@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <2618@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
<>...And I know of no language, with the possible exception of Ada, that is
<>rich enough in control structures to always have an elegant and
<>efficient alternative to using a goto.

Check out BLISS.  It's not without its flaws -- I consider its extreme
typelessness a botch -- but it has such a complete set of well thought
out control constructs that you don't miss the goto at all.  (BLISS has
no goto.)
-- 
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