[Info-vax] Fortran

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Dec 6 20:05:14 EST 2018


On 12/6/2018 8:58 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/5/18 10:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/5/2018 9:12 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 12/5/2018 9:00 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 12/5/2018 8:23 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> On 12/5/18 1:29 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>> Didn't Knuth say that global variables should be banned?
>>>>>
>>>>> And Dijkstra said GOTO's should, too.  How did that work out?
>>>>
>>>> Pretty well.
>>>>
>>>> Many newer languages does not have GOTO.
>>>>
>>>> And in those newer languages that does have it, then
>>>> its usage is typical extremely rare.
>>>
>>> We must exist in different worlds ...
>>
>> You see a lot of code in languages like C# and PHP use GOTO??
> 
> I have never seen any code in PHP that wasn't totally
> obfuscated and confusing even without GOTOs.

A lot of PHP code is very similar to C just with all
types removed and all variable names prefixed with $.

:-)

Arne



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