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  3. July 2002

Re: MI as the MI language of the as400.

From: <jamesl@hb.quik.com>
> > GO TO AAA
> BBB CCC DEPENDING ON NNN
>
> But that's just a "computed goto," to be found in
> BASIC and FORTRAN, nothing
> more than a primitive form of CASE
> construct.

no, it is worse. A case statement continues after
the statement (unless to "goto" somewhere inside
it), but the GO TO DEPENDING don't come back.
It is the not-coming-back that creates the industrial-
strength, canonized, killer-quality, four-star spaghetti
code.


>
> As to the "horror," I've never seen anything quite like it, and
> it makes me
> glad I only took one semester of
> COBOL!
> --

people actually thought this was neat at the time, so
maybe there has been *some* progress...  :-)

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