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- From: lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: GOTO, was: Tiny proposal for na
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 07:59:12 -0500
- Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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- Message-ID: <185270INNg9d@cs.utexas.edu>
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- In article <rmartin.715447981@thor> rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:
- >Are you lazy? I doubt it. But you have decided to ignore some of the
- >lessons of the past.
-
- OK, I can't stand it any more. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm
- getting really tired of seeing "I'm the expert, listen to me" posts from
- Bob Martin. He reminds me of the guy from Saturday Night Live, Al Franken...
-
- "Gee, I might want to use a GOTO here, perhaps I better ask, Bob Martin."
-
- "Boy, this looks like a tough problem, I wonder what, Bob Martin, would do?"
-
- "Wow, the new ANSI C draft is out, what does, Bob Martin, think about it?"
-
- As a C, C++, OOP consultant specializing in embedded systems, I use GOTOs
- now and then. Hey nucklehead, GOTO is in the language because it has a
- place! Try writing a state machine without one! ...You can, but it takes
- about 5x the code, and is alot more confusing.
-
- Now let's see, where did I put that "kill file"...
-
- Lance
-
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