RE: My take on GOTO -- RPG400-L

Guns don't kill people.  Three wheelers don't kill people.  Motorcycles
don't kill people.  It's all true.  If used properly, they won't hurt or
kill people.

If this isn't the case, medicine kills people, cigarettes kill people, blunt
objects kill people.  You NEED the "person" making a concious descision to
do harm in the equation for any of these to be true.  Or, in the case of
"dangerous" ATVs, inexperience and stupidity.  GOTO statments are the same.

Like my statment said, taking away the cigarette lighter in a car to stop
people from smoking in the car will work.  But, it will tork off people who
use it for their cell phones.

Brad

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> From: Contractor1@Parkdalemills.com
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> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 2:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: My take on GOTO
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> I don't think so.  Y'all must be those people that also say, 
> "Guns don't
> kill people. People kill people." The issue is the use of the GOTO
> statement. Occasionally, I find a program with GOTOs used in 
> a structured
> manner and I agree that it is nice clean code. More often I 
> find GOTOs used
> by a programmer that did or does not understand structured 
> programming and
> uses them because he/she finds the structures too limiting. 
> When the GOTO
> is used correctly I see that with the same effort other codes 
> like ITER or
> SELECT could have just as easily been used.
> 
> I doubt that anyone on this mailing list is one of those 
> people that is
> abusing the GOTO. I can understand why "they" are upset about 
> having to
> change if it is taken out.
> 
> Thanks for changing the topic. I hated to belittle a 
> discussion about RPG 5
> to a GOTO debate.
> 
> Patrick Conner
> www.ConnecTown.com
> (828) 244-0822
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> Go Brad,
> 
>      I've always wondered why the GOTO statement was so bad. 
> Nobody has
> ever proven it's problems, if there actually is any. It just 
> always seems
> to be just an opinion.
> 
> Opinions are like A-Holes, everyone has one.
> 
> Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
> Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
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> A Goto is like a cigarette lighter in a car.  It got a bad rap because
> smoking isn't PC anymore, and now cars are being made without them.
> 
> But, what the carmakers forgot is a cig. lighter is also used to power
> accessories such as radar detectors, cell phones, etc.. etc...  Woops.
> 
> kinda like the GOTO.
> 
> Brad
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