RE: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way

I think all the answers point to the same thing....."it depends". Noone
should reject a technique out of hand when it may be the most apposite for
the purpose. For instance, I might have a piece of horrendous legacy code
in front of me to which a minor change has been requested. Do I a) rewrite
the entire program to use structured technique or b) insert a single GOTO
to solve the problem. Compare that to having to do a major change to the
same program, where the merits of rewriting may well outweigh those of
leaving the unstructured mess as is. I completely agree with the opinion
that the objective of writing a program is to condense everything into the
least number of lines, as per the indicator example. Let us leave that to C
programmers!