Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!rata.vuw.ac.nz!cs304pal From: cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Re: Fixing 7K pipes again Message-ID: <1989Oct1.235012.26390@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 1 Oct 89 23:50:12 GMT References: <24962@louie.udel.EDU> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Reply-To: cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes) Organization: Computing Services, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ Lines: 21 In article <24962@louie.udel.EDU> tweten@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes: >I hope you are merely overstating you case, Dr. Tanenbaum. I had >thought the "No gotos" religion had died, mercifully for the rest of >us. I have only been programming in C for a couple of years now, but I have been programming for many years before that. I have written most sorts of programs, including an assembler, a heap management program and a multitude of file handling programs. And I can quite truthfully say that since I left BASIC, I have *NEVER* needed a goto. There is always (I hope) a way to write a piece of code without resorting to gotos. If you can't get a readable program without using a goto, then you need to rethink, it might be a major rethink, but there is always a way. Lloyd Quick, send your money to cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz now! If you think anyone believes what I have just said, then you must be daft in the head!