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Jumping backwards is fine, too. It's okay to ignore Dijkstra when he is wrong.
by dthunt 14y ago
Jumping backwards is fine, too. It's okay to ignore Dijkstra when he is wrong.
- evincarofautumn 14y agoHow dare you imply that programming could possibly be subtle or nuanced or require thought? The very idea that our entire field of expertise could not be adequately conveyed by an eight-page Microsoft Word document of absolute endorsements and prohibitions—laughable!
- Peaker 14y agoDijkstra justified his paper against gotos with reasoned statements that make a lot of sense. Unstructured goto's that do not form simple loops or skips are going to make the position in code a much more complicated notion. And the position in code is crucial to understanding the meaning of variables, for example.
- cube13 14y agoC already has a command to jump backwards in a loop. Continue.