For devotees of Jackson Structured programming, the GOTO is a must for
POSIT and ADMIT processing. Otherwise it can be messy avoiding a GOTO.

I'm a devotee FWIW....

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even a structured IF THEN ELSE END-IF or SELECT WHEN WHEN OTHERWISE
> END-SELECT does gotos at the object code levels.  This is why
> hyperthreading is so helpful.  One thread starts processing the GOTO
> instructions and the other thread starts processing the fall through
> instructions.  Once the branch is finalized, the wrong branch is
> discarded.
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Steve Comstock
> <st...@trainersfriend.com> wrote:
>> On 4/15/2012 9:49 PM, Jake anderson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Apology for asking a basic question and Being Ignorant. We know that GO TO
>>> statments are a big "NO" in many production sites and one of the reason
>>> being it monopolizes the entire CPU.
>>
>>
>> Really? Well, as they say, "It ain't what you know, it's what
>> you 'know' that ain't so"
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> Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?
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