[TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary

[segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

GOTO is one of those paradoxical things where I would only trust the most sophisticated engineer to know when it's acceptable to use a GOTO but on the flip side would be suspicious of anyone claiming to be an engineer that uses any amount of GOTOs...

Were any of the various GOTOs in languages ever meant to be any more than providing the same level of control that branch statements in assembly do?  Was there ever some vision anyone's aware of concerning a sophisticated, dependable use of GOTOs?  Since my first days poking around learning C GOTO has been mentally filed away as an assembly vestige for folks in transition, not a dependable construct in its own right.  Any alternative camps out there?

- Matt G.

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 3:01 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:


> I wonder if Pink Floyd's Summer68 maybe refers to this.
> Other than that i am addicted and could not live without it.
> The other (terrible) song is from 1984 (east southern US).
> 
> --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)