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From: Lawrence Kirby <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 11:56:28 GMT
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In article <4jq2en$[e-mail]> [e-mail] "David Labell" writes:

>Here's a guy who would rather recurse than loop. I don't mean to be rude, but
>this is typical of C programmers.

Using recursion in preference to a loop is rather atypical of C
programmers. However there is nothing wrong in discussing alternatives in
a thread such as this, especially when related to languages with a more
functional bias.

>Why not write it so it says what it does?

For real code that is generally thr correct approach.

>Who benefits from your tricks?

Anybody who is interested in a broader understanding of programming issues.

>I write this from the standpoint of someone who has spent a career poking
>through stuff like the above -- writing it weird just so you can say you
>didn't do ____.
>
>I'm really tired of it.

Nobody was advocating the use of it (at least not in C).

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