Re^2: Oh noooooo!!

[Dave Jones]

>From article <1100 at cernvax.UUCP>, by hjm at cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews):
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> 
> GOTOs are ubiquitous in FORTRAN and uncommon in C.  A FORTRAN compiler
> needs to be able to optimise in the face of GOTOs, whereas a C
> compiler is rarely called upon so to do.

Statements like this never fail to mystify me.

So what if program A is rarely called upon to do task B?  If it is ever
called on to do it, will it do it?

Please clarify.