John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Donn Cave wrote: > > In its day, goto was of course very well loved. > > No, it wasn't. By 1966 or so, "GOTO" was starting to look like a > bad idea. It was a huge hassle for debugging.
This is interesting. Do you have any references we can read about this assertion -- specifically, that "GOTO" was not well loved (I assume "by the programming community at large") even by around 1966? -- \ "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use | `\ it well." -- Rene Descartes | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
