Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: No gotos in Bourne shell
Message-ID: <1988Apr20.072731.461@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 88 07:27:31 GMT

> ... it is "amusing" to "note" that the
> Bourne shell supports `break n'...

Now, quickly, name three people who've ever actually used it.  Certainly
we haven't, and we've got thousands of lines of shell applications.

> It is also "amusing" to "note" that DEC has done right well with its DCL which
> has yet to support a loop constructor of any kind other than GOTO.

If you consider marketing success a sign of technical merit, I trust you are
using an ASR33 connected to a VAX 730 running VMS on RL01 disks to write
assembler code for an IBM PC running MSDOS? ;-)
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