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From: d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re^2: The "evil" GOTO (Was: 25 Years of BASIC)
Message-ID: <39@harald.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 12:40:21 GMT
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Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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jacka@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong) writes:

>In all of this GOTO/NOGOTO nonsense, no one seems to have mentioned just
>WHY gotos are so ugly - it's not the goto statement that causes readability
>problems - is the %&#!$! label!  When reading source written by others (or
>myself, more than 5 minutes ago) the presense of a label tells me *somebody*,
>*somewhere* does a goto to this location.  The question is - who? from where?

This brings back memories of a paper I saw several years ago describing
a new language construct, the COMEFROM statement along with several
other humourous ideas ( :-D ) !
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