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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!taumet!steve
- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: GOTO, was: Tiny proposal for na
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.165016.4370@taumet.com>
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <714668024@thor> <6800007@tisdec.tis.tandy.com> <1992Aug26.130335.26725@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:50:16 GMT
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- In <1992Aug26.130335.26725@hemlock.cray.com> dsf@cray.com (Dan Frankowski) writes:
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- |I believe someone once wrote an article entitled something like
- |"Structured Programming Using Goto"; the same person who wrote
- |another article that started this whole mess that was entitled "Goto
- |Considered Harmful", if my memory has changed state randomly.
-
- Sorry, your memory needs refreshing :-)
-
- "Go to statement considered harmful" was a letter written to
- Communications of the ACM by Edsger Dijkstra and published in
- CACM, Vol 11 No 3, March 1968; the was title supplied by the editor.
- (Dijkstra has written about this letter elsewhere, and extensively
- on the subject of structured programming. Most everything he has
- published deserves serious study; check your local CS or Engineering
- library.)
-
- "Structured Programming with go to Statements", by Donald Knuth,
- was published in ACM Computing Surveys, vol 6 No 4, December 1974.
- It is well worth reading, as is the rest of this issue.
- --
-
- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
- Vice Chair, ANSI C++ Committee, X3J16
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