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47 years after Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the Structured Programming Wars flare up again on Hacker News :D Neat hack, though. [1] htt
by veddox 11y ago
47 years after Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the Structured Programming Wars flare up again on Hacker News :D
Neat hack, though.
[1] http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_To_Considered_Harmful.html http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T...
- jsbg 11y agoSomeone wrote an implementation of COMEFROM (a joke response to the Dijkstra article) along with GOTO in Python for an April fools' day joke as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
- sklogic 11y agoComefrom is a mainstream now, not a joke any more. See the phi nodes in SSA.