At 16:52 -0700 3/11/04, KENT WALLACE wrote:

>I was told in 1986 when I worked at Boeing, never to use "GO TO"'s.  I have had this discussion off the list.  I have written a few languages and have compiled the following list.
>
>Language     USE of "GO TO"
>
>COBOL         It's a sin, some use it to exit paragraph but I won't.
>PASCAL        Never
>C                  Never
>COGNOS      There is not one!
>ADA              Never, poor coding practice
>VB .NET        Use EXIT SUB, IF etc...(never)
>FORTRAN     Yes
>SPEEDWARE ??

Ah...  But *all* of these languages, eventually, get translated to
SOME language that has, at least, two kinds of "go to" (or "jump",
or whatever you want to call them) statements: unconditional and
conditional.

You may hide them, but you can't (eventually) avoid them.

Here is some info:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc311/Notes/Mips/jump.html

The equivalent TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/3axw5

Enjoy,

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