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* [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?
@ 2020-12-04  0:51 Bakul Shah
  2020-12-04  3:35 ` Larry McVoy
  2020-12-04 16:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bakul Shah @ 2020-12-04  0:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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

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* Re: [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?
  2020-12-04  0:51 [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful? Bakul Shah
@ 2020-12-04  3:35 ` Larry McVoy
  2020-12-04 16:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2020-12-04  3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bakul Shah; +Cc: tuhs

I have gone down the rabbit hole of this and I can not thank you enough.

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:51:30PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> 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

-- 
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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 

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* Re: [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?
  2020-12-04  0:51 [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful? Bakul Shah
  2020-12-04  3:35 ` Larry McVoy
@ 2020-12-04 16:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  2020-12-04 22:43   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2020-12-04 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bakul Shah; +Cc: tuhs

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)

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* Re: [TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?
  2020-12-04 16:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
@ 2020-12-04 22:43   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2020-12-04 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bakul Shah; +Cc: tuhs

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20201204160222.aPNy3%steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
 |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
 ...
 |its usefulness i have heard (a bit).)
 |
 |  #?141|kent:plan9port.git$ git grep goto master|wc -l
 |...
 |  echo 2MzQ1Mwo= | openssl base64 -d

Where that 2 comes from i do not know, it should have been
MzQ1Mwo=.

Ciao, and a nice weekend i wish from Germany,

--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)

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