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to: Jens Bang
from: Vic Dura
date: 1994-11-18 08:25:00
subject: `Goto Considered Har

JB> Yo Vic!

JB> Wednesday November 02 1994 10:26, Vic Dura wrote to Murray Lesser:

JB>  ML>> The logical fallacies in Prof Dijkstra's 1965 "Goto is
JB>  ML>> Harmful" papers live on in several generations of
JB>  ML>> programmers trained by computer-science profs who didn't
JB>  ML>> read those papers carefully enough, so accepted the
JB>  ML>> assertions in them.  Consequently, those programmers never
JB>  ML>> learned how and when to use a GOTO.  However, there are
JB>  ML>> some of us, too old to have fallen for the "structured
JB>  ML>> programming" nonsense, still alive.

JB> I'm one of those new ones, and I would like to form my own 
JB> opinion.  Therefor this question: Where can I get prof.  
JB> Dijkstra's article?

Sorry, I don't know. You need to ask ML, he's the one that wrote
the above.

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