From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:02:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201204160222.aPNy3%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30EBC7A6-4527-4FDC-9FCB-B262DBA4F893@iitbombay.org>
Bakul Shah wrote in
<30EBC7A6-4527-4FDC-9FCB-B262DBA4F893@iitbombay.org>:
|Last night I stumbled upon this speech by Doug McIlroy at Dijkstra's \
|retirement banquet @ UT Austin where he tells the story of his first \
|encounter with EWD and the origins of programming without goto.... \
|Given that we recently had a discussion on "Goto considered harmful", \
|you all may enjoy it. Make sure you watch the start of part 10 as well \
|as that is where the story ends.
|
|https://youtu.be/5OUPBwrufKA?list=PL328C7EFFC1F41674&t=326
An intracardiac heart injection of adrenaline!
(Later medical studies seem to contradict the original thinking of
its usefulness i have heard (a bit).)
#?141|kent:plan9port.git$ git grep goto master|wc -l
...
echo 2MzQ1Mwo= | openssl base64 -d
(Obscured for the highly sensitive (the "h" in "tuhs") among the
audience.)
--End of <30EBC7A6-4527-4FDC-9FCB-B262DBA4F893@iitbombay.org>
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 0:51 Bakul Shah
2020-12-04 3:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-04 16:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2020-12-04 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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