[Info-vax] Fortran

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/6/2018 8:14 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

Weird.

PHP is a rather simple language.

Usually very straight forward to see what it does. At least
if one has seen a "C family" language before.

There are a lot of bad PHP code violating all sorts of
best practices for design. But it is still readable.

A piece of trivial PHP code:

<?php
function fac($n) {
     if($n <= 1) {
         return 1;
     } else {
         return $n * fac($n - 1);
     }
}

for($i = 0; $i <= 10; $i++) {
     echo sprintf("fac(%d) = %d\r\n", $i, fac($i));
}
?>

Most programmers should find that very simple.

Arne