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> you can do a lot of stuff just with goto and if statements You can do all stuff with goto and if, but then again, why should you? Initially it sounds simple
by lou1306 8y ago
> you can do a lot of stuff just with goto and if statements
You can do all stuff with goto and if, but then again, why should you? Initially it sounds simple, but as the complexity grows it becomes unmaintainable (especially when goto is unstructured, or non-local, such as the "On Error GoTo ..." statement). For some time, I had to fix hundred-line legacy VBA functions and it was hard (i.e. forget trying to do it without a debbugger).
- MichaelMoser123 8y agoI was talking about educational programming: you still have to teach variables, expressions, assignment, a bunch of library functions, etc. etc. The job of teaching is not being made easier if you also have to add a lot of non trivial syntax on top of that.