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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
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Subject: Re: The "evil" GOTO (Was: 25 Years of BASIC)
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Date: 4 May 89 21:58:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: mirk@warwick.UUCP's message of 4 May 89 13:12:14 GMT

In article <1814@ubu.warwick.UUCP> mirk@warwick.UUCP (Mike Taylor) writes:

   [ ... ]  Listen, just 'cause Quiche-eater Wirth connected GOTOs with
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   lack of structure generally, doesn't mean either that (A) ALL use of
   GOTO is unstructured and obfuscatory, or that (B) ALL obfuscated code
   is due to use of GOTO -- so why is it that so many people seem to
   believe these myths?

It was Dijsktra [sp?].  Other than that, I perfectly agree!

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