On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Nathan Ernst <nathan.er...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for that Alan Kay quote. Brightened up my day. Since you also > mentioned COBOL, and this is a thread about "goto", reminded me of the > single most abhorrent thing I ever saw in COBOL (I had to convert a single > COBOL batch process to ASP.Net as an intern back in 2003-4). "MOVE NEXT > SENTENCE". What is this statement? An unlabelled goto. It literally jumps > to the next period: "." in the source. > > Now, I'm fine with judicious use of goto with good labels. (and, I've only > used goto maybe 3 or 4 times in a 15 year career), but a blocky construct > like "MOVE NEXT SENTENCE" in a language that also has lots of (all-caps > required) block statements to jump to a tiny on the screen period...that is > just evil.
Yikes. I never took the time to learn COBOL, but that almost sounds like something that you'd find in an esoteric language like INTERCAL. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
