Re: GOTO vis-a-vis professional vs amateur programmers

In article <46e15bf2$0$16400$88260bb3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Auric__"
<not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>The thing that gets me is, no matter what control structure you use, 
>once you get down to machine language, they all get translated to 
>jumps -- the machine language equivalent to GOTO.

So what? We don't write, or maintain, machine code. The point is to make
the 
program comprehensible to a *human*. And that means an easily-understood 
control structure in the high-level source code. What that source code
gets 
translated to at the machine level is relevant only to the machine.

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Regards,
        Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.