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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: GOTO, was: Tiny proposal for na
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.205014.24925@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <2318@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <rmartin.715001372@thor> <4192@papaya.bbn.com> <1992Sep2.131733.20676@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <rmartin.715526582@thor>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:50:14 GMT
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- In <rmartin.715526582@thor> rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:
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- >Now, granted, there are some cases where the rules of Structure
- >Programming do not create the most efficient possible code. And in
- >cases where efficiency is of primary importance, then the rules should
- >be violated, without regret.
-
- There are also places where the rules of Structured Programming do not
- create the most READABLE or MAINTAINABLE code, either. In these
- cases, as well, they should be jettisoned. This is the problem with
- having a set of 'usual rules'. Meeting the rules becomes more
- important to some people than meeting the goals that the rules are
- supposed to be helping you with.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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