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I think Hoare said it in a talk I once heard, that control structures essentially give a higher-level meaning to the ordinary GOTO. In that sense I always under
by ygra 14y ago
I think Hoare said it in a talk I once heard, that control structures essentially give a higher-level meaning to the ordinary GOTO. In that sense I always understood the “considered harmful” paper as advice to replace GOTO by appropriate control structures where applicable.
- jacques_chester 14y agoRight. That was part of the confusion, because as I said above, lots of programmers of the day didn't see the point in inventing a bunch of special cases when a simple general case existed.