2 Dec
2020
2 Dec
'20
2:13 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Jim Capp wrote:
Is it possible the elimination of the GOTO statement
in the Bourne
Shellwas related to a Letter to the Editor in Communications of the ACM,
March 1968: "Go To Statement Considered Harmful," by E. Dijkstra.
And then there was the story of Professor Goto (a Japanese citizen and
computer bod) who complained that everyone was trying to eliminate him :-)
-- Dave