[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 10:23:51 AM UTC+13, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 10/17/21 2:58 PM, Simon Clubley wrote: 
>> 
>> Have you ever read Dijkstra's paper on the subject of goto statements ? 
>> 
>> https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf 
>>
> Yes, and a number of his other comments. While I agree with 
> some of it I think for the most part he was an ass. 

Maybe you think his arguments were too vague, too pontifical. Maybe you want something a bit more specific, with example code you can get your teeth into, to show you why gotos are a bad idea.

Try this: <https://github.com/ldo/a_structured_discipline_of_programming>.

(Dis)claimer: I have never written a goto in C code. Not in a program that did anything useful, anyway.