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Fortran (name since 1990) has SELECT CASE to make Computed GO TO obsolete. Maybe you are thinking of FORTRAN?
by theodorethomas 5y ago
Fortran (name since 1990) has SELECT CASE to make Computed GO TO obsolete. Maybe you are thinking of FORTRAN?
- Jtsummers 5y agoSure, FORTRAN then. The language that Hamming was referencing. Sadly, though, obsolete doesn't mean absent. I saw plenty of ostensibly professional code in the early 2010s that was developed using computed go to. It was "delightful" and totally humane code.