[TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Dec 2 06:13:42 AEST 2020
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Jim Capp wrote:
> Is it possible the elimination of the GOTO statement in the Bourne
> Shellwas related to a Letter to the Editor in Communications of the ACM,
> March 1968: "Go To Statement Considered Harmful," by E. Dijkstra.
And then there was the story of Professor Goto (a Japanese citizen and
computer bod) who complained that everyone was trying to eliminate him :-)
-- Dave
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