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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
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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

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