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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: goto's in C: an opinion...
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Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 11:59:36 EDT
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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