[COFF] [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20201201223824.gBVRZ%steffen at sdaoden.eu>:
 |Dan Cross wrote in
 | <CAEoi9W63J0HKbWUk8wrGSkCdyzzaV-F6km-q+K-H2+kvURWWdQ at mail.gmail.com>:
 ||On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 3:40 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:
 ||> On Dec 1, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> \
 ||> wrote:
 ||>> Never without my goto:, and if it is only to break to error
 ||>> handling and/or staged destruction of local variables after
 ||>> initialization failures.  Traumatic school impression, finding
 ||>> yourself locked in some PASCAL if condition, and no way to go to.
 ||>
 ||> Pascal had goto.
 |
 |Hm, i did not receive Bakul's mail.  Well i did not use it long

Actually not true.

  Dec  1 21:39:30 postfix/qmgr[2670]: 4557B16056: from=<bakul at iitbombay.org>, size=4251, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
  Dec  1 21:39:30 postfix/local[9475]: 4557B16056: to=<steffen at sdaoden.eu>, relay=local, delay=0.11, delays=0.08/0/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)

  ...
 |Help.

And increasingly so.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)