gotos

[Michael J. Andrew]

In article <1988Apr5.213343.1528 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Sometimes, gotos are perfectly justifiable because they vastly
>> simplify and clarify you code.
>
>And once in a long while, there is no better way.  A loooong while.
>If I were running a software house, I'd be tempted to say that using
>a goto -- except in fixing a program that already uses them -- means
>having $50 docked from your pay.  It's not *forbidden*, you understand,
>it's just that you have to want it really badly!

This is a excellent extension to a scheme I keep proposing half-
seriously to management, to encourage good programming
practices among novice, sloppy or lazy programmers.

Provide each member of the team a $500 bonus at the start of a new
project, but deduct $50 each time a global variable is introduced
into the design.

Wh
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