[Info-vax] BASIC (and Horizon)

[kludge at panix.com]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>The code is VB6.
>
>But none of the problems are Basic specific. It is possible
>to write the same bad code in C or Fortran or whatever.
>
>So it just shows that there are some really really bad programmers out
>there.

I have worked with people who could write spaghetti Fortran in any
programming language available.  Did you know that LISP has a goto?
It does.

>PS: Good compilers may have detected the unreachable code. But it
>     is still good vs bad compiler not good vs bad language.

The exciting part is when they tell you not to remove the unreachable code,
because the program crashes at runtime when you do that.
--scott