[Info-vax] Fortran

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Wed Dec 5 16:01:40 EST 2018


Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>In article <3ce8252e-5eec-45c9-8dbf-d311cc8e27cd at googlegroups.com>, Galen <gltackett at gmail.com> writes:
>> Probably a GE die-hards still using the three-branch IF as well? ;-)
>
>   I know of 300,000 lines of Fortran that was written in the 1960s and
>   is full of both assigned GOTOs and calculated GOTOs.  Some may have
>   been re-written in C by now, but not all, last I heard.  It's in
>   daily use.

Calculated GOTO is the number one way to slow your program execution down
to a crawl.  Time for a code review.
--scott
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