The final word on GOTO (Don't I wish)

Joe English jeenglis at nunki.usc.edu
Sun Sep 17 16:59:52 AEST 1989


mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I would consider a goto harmful IF and ONLY IF it produced a bug in a program.

How about a bunch of goto's that rendered the code
totally unreadable?  Have you seen the recent posting
of the permutation algorithm translated from Fortran?
That's what's considered harmful about it.

--Joe English

  jeenglis at nunki.usc.edu



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