[Info-vax] Fortran

[Dave Froble]

On 12/5/2018 4:01 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
>

The question is, is it broke?  If not, why try to fix it.  Performance 
may not be an issue.

I'm all for doing things in the best manner.  I'm not for re-writing all 
the code in the world every 6 months.

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