[Info-vax] Fortran

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/6/18 8:05 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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 $.
> 
> :-)
> 

In my 40 years of doing C I have never seen C as bad as
most of the PHP I have seen outside of the Obfuscated
C Contest.  And even much of that was more understandable.

I have seen PHP that was so confusing that after being away
from it for three years the original author couldn't figure
it out, or fix it.

bill