[TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sat Dec 5 08:43:00 AEST 2020


Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20201204160222.aPNy3%steffen at sdaoden.eu>:
 |Bakul Shah wrote in
 | <30EBC7A6-4527-4FDC-9FCB-B262DBA4F893 at iitbombay.org>:
 ||Last night I stumbled upon this speech by Doug McIlroy at Dijkstra's \
 ||retirement banquet @ UT Austin where he tells the story of his first \
 ||encounter with EWD and the origins of programming without goto.... \
 ||Given that we recently had a discussion on "Goto considered harmful", \
 ||you all may enjoy it. Make sure you watch the start of part 10 as well \
 ||as that is where the story ends.
 ||
 ||https://youtu.be/5OUPBwrufKA?list=PL328C7EFFC1F41674&t=326
 ...
 |its usefulness i have heard (a bit).)
 |
 |  #?141|kent:plan9port.git$ git grep goto master|wc -l
 |...
 |  echo 2MzQ1Mwo= | openssl base64 -d

Where that 2 comes from i do not know, it should have been
MzQ1Mwo=.

Ciao, and a nice weekend i wish from Germany,

--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)


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