Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Put your code where your mouth is (was Re: gotos)
Message-ID: <1988Apr24.003342.3071@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 88 00:33:42 GMT

> # To put it bluntly, it's not worth my time.  In most cases the obvious goto-
> # free code is just as efficient as Knuth's, given a modern compiler...
> 
> Nice show of arrogance but any reasonable reader must conclude that you have
> not proved your case.  You somehow found plenty of time to rail against gotos.

Less than you think; certainly less than it would take to type in several
dozen examples of mostly pretty obvious code.  (How much thought does it take
to recode a four-line example?)  I've already spent about as much time as I
think reasonable on the subject; the reasonable readers will have to look at
Knuth's article and judge for themselves whether I'm right, rather than
expecting me to prove it in nit-picky detail.
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