All,

  What's the big deal with GOTO?  After all GOTO, GOSUB, CALL, etc.,
  are all just different ways of accomplishing the same ultimate goal.
  And that is to change the current flow of the program based on the
  value of some register, variable, test, etc.  I couldn't care less
  which one of those methods I use, provided it gives me the results
  and stability I want and need.  And I know someone (or someones?)
  will argue up and down that they are NOT the same, but in essence
  they are.  They all accomplish the same end goal.

  The argument about it being easier or more proper to maintain a
  program using one over the other is ludicrous at best.  Why is it
  easier to use a CALL for instance than a GOTO?  Or a GOSUB in place
  of a CALL?  This seems rather dumb to me.  Most of the programs I
  have written, regardless of language, I get to maintain.  No problem
  there right?  But if I had to give that responsibility to someone
  else, they could do the same thing I do with very little trouble,
  and the GOTO's GOSUB's, CALL's, etc wouldn't be the cause of any
  of that trouble.  So, consequently, what is the argument?

  Now whether it is or isn't good programming practice to use one
  over the other I believe is determined by the current FAD.  Yes FAD.
  Someone out there has to say that this is the way it should be done,
  and that method stays in effect until someone else comes along and
  says, "No No, that's not the way it should be done at all.  It
  should be done this way.  Now a different philosophy is in effect.
  So, it all boils down to politics in the end.   And since it isn't
  a good idea to discuss politics here, this is where I will end it.

                                                Regards Y'all

                                                     Jim







On Tue, 12 September 2000, Lance Allen wrote:

>
> On 12 Sep 2000, at 16:09, M. Adam Davis wrote:
>
>
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's why they invented the median.
> >
> > So those strips of vegitation between parallel inverse lanes of road actually
> > help keep correct time?
> >
> > -Adam
>
> No... silly
>
> The strip of vegetation is the 'average' of the parallel inverse lanes of
> road.
>
> (I might not be too smart but I can lift heavy things!)
> - Lance
>
>  He who laughs last... thinks the slowest
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