Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!megatest!djones 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 Lines: 13 From article <1100@cernvax.UUCP>, by hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews): ... > > 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.