[Info-vax] Trigger warnings, was: Re: 8-bit characters

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Nov 15 19:33:18 EST 2021


On 11/15/2021 5:41 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/14/2021 6:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> More like structured vs goto style. and strong typing vs weak
>> typing.
> 
> Languages don't provide structure, programmers do that.
> 
> Perhaps not all programmers end up with good structure.

Actually programming languages do provide features that
are commonly labeled "structured programming".

Which is really most programming languages: the
Algol/Pascal/Modula-2/Ada family, the C/C++/Java/C# family
etc..

Original Fortran and Basic did not qualify - too dependent
on GOTO. But modern flavors of those languages do qualify
as well.

Even though Python's block concept is let us call it "unusual"
(indentation based) then it also qualifies.

Arne





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