And I once worked (back in the 1970's) in a software shop where "because procedure calls are slow in PL/1" we had to write them so each procedure ended with a GOTO to a specific label variable. You would call these monstrosities in the following way:I do not want to pollute the debate but:
-) I remember a software QA managanager responsible for "C" coding rules
also not allowing us to use 'break', 'continue', or 'return' (in the middle
of a function).
MyProcReturn = DoneIt;
GOTO MyProc;
DoneIt:
...Horrendous. I lasted about five months and then couldn't take the ignorance and idiocy any longer. They refused to believe that a recursive function could ever be useful in the real world (but then, if you only have a hammer ...)
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