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Re: MI as the MI language of the as400.

no, just going down memory lane. and it's time to stop....

----- Original Message -----
From: <jamesl@hb.quik.com>

> Of course, the whole debate over GOTOs and computed GOTOs (and
> that venerable FORTRAN construct, the numeric IF) is kind of ludicrous,
> considering as how in MI, we HAVE to implement all IF/THEN/ELSE and
> CASE constructs by hand-coding them in terms of constructs no more
> inherently structured than those present in ANSI-66 FORTRAN IV.
>
> Are we straining at gnats while
> swallowing ENIAC, and going after mote in one
> eye while ignoring a beam in
> the other, or what?

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