Re: Using GOTO

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:29:31 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Phred)
wrote:

>I've been following the debate on GOTO elsewhere here in c.l.b.m and 
>in alt.lang.basic and it has been pleasing to note that a consensus 
>seems to have been reached.

I don't think so.  It seems that the guys who think it is bad to use
goto's just are not required to produce large, complex commercial
applications any time, but just sample programs where they get to
dictate the logic to their own ends.

They will always think they are better programmers than anyone who
knows the value of simplified logic, because they think it is
im****tant to always demonstrate how intricate they can make their
bird-nested, indented, multiply-conditioned if-then-else-do-while-not-
too-complicated loops.

There is nothing anyone could do other than post far too much code
here to convince them otherwise, and they will wiggle out of doing it
anyway.  You could shove their noses in it and they still would not
accept it.

So why bother?

I'm happy enough doing what I do with the tools I have available.

Just because I don't have the luxury to devote my life to trying to
convince these dip****s otherwise doesn't mean they are right, or that
a consensus seems to have been reached.

>If I may be so bold as to summarise the conclusion here as I see it:
>
>   One should use GOTO when it is necessary and one should 
>   avoid it when it is not needed.

That just ****fts the argument to who is to decide if it is needed,
like the "who is a best programmer" bull****.

I use it because I know it is necessary in my work, and I use it
because it is the best construction to use in the situations I use it.
I do not bother to count how often, but I know it's a lot.  

I don't really care how sloppy others can be with goto's or any other
logic construction - it doesn't affect me.

There doesn't really seem to be anything I could or would want to
expend the effort to do to affect the way progarmming languages grow
and develop in the future.

So I stopped arguing this point because I just don't give a ****
anymore - not because a consensus has been reached.

You are terribly wrong to assume that has happened.