31 Aug
2017
31 Aug
'17
11:59 p.m.
On 8/31/2017 3:25 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
"What? A language without goto?"
It always made me wonder what they were hiding - piles of stuff being
pushed/popped to the stack that a goto would leave hanging?
I eschew gotos myself, especially in C. I don't use them. When I get to
the point in a program that I think about using one, I go back and
re-write the logic so it doesn't need one.
I do not, however, look down on people who DO use them. I've used them
in the past for efficiency, just not lately. You can get away with them
in C because there's no magic going on, besides what the optimizer does.
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On 8/31/2017 5:46 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
Why create an entirely new language, new syntax, new
linkage, etc,
instead of fixing C's shortcomings?
I never understood the "crash and burn" logic either.
Maybe you should come up with a new C standard ;)