I guess I'm really old, too (55 yrs); however, I actually saw a book (I didn't
touch it though), "The Art of Assembly Language Programming" at Barnes & Noble
this afternoon. Hopefully, I've forgotten everything that I've ever known
about 370 Macro Assembler. . . .And it is true that to get around in (any)
assembly language, you're going to "goto" and "jump", etc.
Still, I insist that if you're programming ANY HLL, use structured code.
Perform subroutines "while", "until", "do while", use "case" constructs to
simplify otherwise deeply nested "if-then-else" conditionals. Unfortunately,
Perl does not support a true case operation, as does C or JavaScript, et al.,
but you can fake it.
OTTF,
Ron W.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Charles K. Clarkson
To: 'Perl Beginners List'
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:34 AM
Subject: RE: Is GOTO evil?
Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(RE: Charles K. Clarkson's comment)
: In [brief] defense of GOTO, for some programming it is
: essential. Assembly language programming, for example.
.
.
Programming in assembler, huh. You're either a
computer science student, very curious, or really old. :)
