Subj : Re: Prime numbers
To   : Thomas W. Mueller
From : Scott Adams
Date : Fri Jul 19 2002 06:30 am

 -=> Quoting Thomas W. Mueller to Scott Adams <=-

 TWM>>> There has been exactly one case in my Pascal programming work
 TWM>>> where I was tempted to use a goto. I don't recall whether I did
 TWM>>> in the end but I remember my boss getting a fit when I
 TWM>>> mentioned the requirement. ;-) I am now a few years older an
 TWM>>> tend to think wiser as well (scratch that: "more experienced"
 TWM>>> is the term to use). I would not think twice about using a goto
 TWM>>> if it makes the code more readable, damn anybody who thinks
 TWM>>> that's a sacrilege. Oddly it has not happened yet...
 
 SA>> The boss knew the consequences of goto eh?
 
 TWM>> Being an experienced Delphi developer he of course knew. But I
 TWM>> don't quite get what you are trying to tell me.
 
 SA> If he knew then he would know the consequences of gotos.  Any newbie
 SA> in coding gets the goto lesson in school on its inefficiency and all
 SA> that.

 TWM> In my opinion most of what I was told about the evilness of gotos was
 TWM> crap. Not that I advocate usage of it, but it has got its uses. Less
 TWM> so, since current pascal dialects have the alternatives break and
 TWM> exit, but still, a goto can make sense.

        Yeah I've noticed that over the last 2 decades.  Its
        mainly a academic thing back when coding was critical
        in terms of speed and space.  In pascal its very
        easy not to use them if good code exists.

 TWM> In these days I make the Pascal coding style decisions in our company,
 TWM> so we will see what happens when I encounter the first one of these
 TWM> beasts. ;-) 

        Wow...pascal? a rare company which company is that?


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