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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gotos
Message-ID: <3534@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 88 21:18:22 GMT
References: <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1988Apr16.223658.15649@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <1988Apr16.223658.15649@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>[re languages so rich in control structures that goto is superfluous]
>Don't forget the Unix shell.  (The standard one, not the silly thing from
>Berkeley.)

It isn't sufficiently rich, at least not for my taste.  Some things I've had
to write in shell are worse than a goto.  (Functions would help, but older
shells don't have them yet, so I avoid them when I need portability.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint