[Coco] C VS Basic Coco

[Lee]

William, are you implying that babies are not strictly required, but
sometimes useful?  :P  Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:29 PM, William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:

> On 2018-02-14 10:06 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
>> Ask Dykstra.  Or just look at the decades of research into why GOTOs are
>> bad.
>> In one of my last professional programming gigs I took more than a dozen
>> programs heavily laced with GOTOs (true spaghetti code!!) and using proper
>> structured programming removed all of them.  While I am not one who
>> heavily
>> favors standards bodies I think when they decided to come up with a BASIC
>> standard it should have deprecated the GOTO entirely.
>>
>
> Unrestrained use of GOTO is definitely bad. Especially when you have
> better alternative control structures (FOR, WHILE, etc.) and proper
> blocking that hide underlying GOTO business.
>
> However, there are some cases where it can serve to make the code flow
> clearer.
>
> Note that I'm not advocating for the use of GOTO everywhere. I'm simply
> saying that getting rid of it entirely is a bit like throwing the baby out
> with the bath water. Is it strictly required? No. Is it useful sometimes?
> Yes.
>
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