In
<cae1xxdgtr9jie9h9x3sj9pqvq1yivx0zafnawuakhafucqq...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/01/2013
at 12:59 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>Dijkstra's original notions were that GOTOs were often misused and
>that they were sometimes much overused, not that they should never be
>used.
He talked out of both sides of his mouth. While denying that he
claimed GOTO should be banned, he also advocated designing languages
with no GOTO.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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