gotos

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <7681 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
# In article <451 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
# >Mr Spencer, Mr. David Brown, and the loquacious Mr. Gwyn all say straight 
# >out that I am an advocate of the use of the goto statement.
# 
# There you go, putting (wrong) words in other peoples' mouths.
# 
# >You three, Spencer, Brown, and Gwyn, hold that it is proper for you to 
# >publicly criticize the software produced by the company which employs me, 
# >on the basis of a few lines that I wrote here.
# 
# Ditto.  I merely maintained that it is appropriate for Henry to
# think poorly of a company that publicly announces its liberal use
# of GOTO with apparent pride.  If that's not what you intended to do,
# then Henry and I must have misunderstood you.

Begging your pardon, unless Dave posted an article I never saw, the strongest
thing he ever said which would tend to lead one to believe his company
liberally uses GOTO was something to the effect that "You'd get laughed into
the pond in ten minutes if you tried that here" [pay-docking mind games to
sear the fear of GOTO into every programmer's heart].  From what I see,
Spencer especially took that as a endorsement of liberal use of GOTO at
Megatest.  (And even I went along with that notion [viz. an earlier posting of
mine saying "so what if he does use lots of GOTOs?  that's not the only valid
metric of code"] till I looked more carefully at what was actually being said.)
YOU should talk about putting "(wrong)" words into other peoples' mouths!
(Or wrong thoughts into other people's heads, or wrong lines into other
peoples' code.)
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