Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!elroy!smeagol!jplgodo!wlbr!scgvaxd!trwrb!aero!venera.isi.edu!lmiller From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: goto's in C: an opinion... Message-ID: <3263@venera.isi.edu> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 11:59:36 EDT Article-I.D.: venera.3263 Posted: Fri Jul 24 11:59:36 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 01:59:20 EDT References: <3289@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> <7571@beta.UUCP> <765@haddock.ISC.COM> <264@wrs.UUCP> Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller) Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 19 In article <264@wrs.UUCP> dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes: >>Perhaps ADA does, but I'm not sure I want to use something that big. > >Now it's my turn to play devil's advocate - I seem to remember that in >some obscure journal or other, one of those structured programming gurus >(i.e. Djykstra (sp??) / Wirth) said that the only structured concepts >needed are loops and ifs, everything else is just icing. Now looking at >every language so far designed, I see some form of loop and some form >of if. So what are we (myself included) all bitching about?????????? >-- The paper was (refer format): %A C. Boehm %A G Jacopini %T Flow Diagrams, Turing Machines, and Languages With Only Two Formation Rules %J C. ACM %D May, 1966