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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Oh noooooo!!
Message-ID: <8322@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 22:42:41 GMT
References: <1100@cernvax.UUCP>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <1100@cernvax.UUCP>, by hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews):
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> 
> GOTOs are ubiquitous in FORTRAN and uncommon in C.  A FORTRAN compiler
> needs to be able to optimise in the face of GOTOs, whereas a C
> compiler is rarely called upon so to do.

Statements like this never fail to mystify me.

So what if program A is rarely called upon to do task B?  If it is ever
called on to do it, will it do it?

Please clarify.