[TUHS] Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - Unearthed!
Nemo
cym224 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 11:57:48 AEST 2017
Shades of Myfol vs. Yourtran!
On 31/08/2017, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote (in part):
> and i still hear
> myself asking the teacher "What? A language without goto?"
Pascal has always had goto. (One of Wirth's pascal compilers even
jumped from within one function to a label inside another function!)
The construct was removed in Modula. (As Parnas has said, the problem
is not having a comefrom to go with the goto.)
N.
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