Mike Meyer wrote: > rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Many of the world's most profitable software companies (MS for example) >>have thousands of goto statements in their code... oh the horror of it >>all. Why aren't these enlightened-by-the-gods know-it-alls as profitable >>as these obviously ignorant companies? > > > Because profitability has *nothing* to do with code quality, and > everything to do with marketing. MS, in particular, has done an > excellent job of divorcing code quality from their bottom line by > shuffling the bulk of the support work off to other companies: > hardware vendors who bundle MS software, system integrators, and > customers friends and family being very high on the list. > > That they felt the need to do this speaks volumes about their code > quality.
whoa whoa whoa! Discussing goto statements and Microsoft together is like mixing dynamite and gasoline. We don't want this to explode into some interminable argument; that's not the kind of thing people like to see on comp.lang.python. Oh by the way, boo has goto statements: http://svn.boo.codehaus.org/trunk/tests/testcases/integration/goto-1.boo?view=auto KABOOM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
