[TUHS] I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 4:18 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> GOTO is one of those paradoxical things where I would only trust the most
> sophisticated engineer to know when it's acceptable to use a GOTO but on
> the flip side would be suspicious of anyone claiming to be an engineer that
> uses any amount of GOTOs...
>
> Were any of the various GOTOs in languages ever meant to be any more than
> providing the same level of control that branch statements in assembly do?
> Was there ever some vision anyone's aware of concerning a sophisticated,
> dependable use of GOTOs?  Since my first days poking around learning C GOTO
> has been mentally filed away as an assembly vestige for folks in
> transition, not a dependable construct in its own right.  Any alternative
> camps out there?
>


In C I use it all the time to do goto err for common error recovery because
C doesn't have anything better.

Warner

> - Matt G.
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 3:01 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <
> steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:
>
>
> > I wonder if Pink Floyd's Summer68 maybe refers to this.
> > Other than that i am addicted and could not live without it.
> > The other (terrible) song is from 1984 (east southern US).
> >
> > --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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