rbt wrote:

> IMO, most of the people who deride goto do so because they heard or read
> where someone else did. 

Or perhaps, like me, they have had to maintain FORTRAN code written by a 
scientist who apparently hadn't heard of subroutines. "Spaghetti" 
doesn't quite describe it. I've settled on "Lovecraftian": reading the 
code, you can't help but get the impression of writhing tentacles and 
impossible angles.

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Robert Kern
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"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter

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