Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 15:24:19 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 18:15:58, Hasnain Mujtaba wrote: > >>IE it wasn't written for speed, it was written for readability. There is >>exactly one goto in crafty, in the MakeMove() stuff. I could do the same >>there but would have to repeat a bunch of code... >> >>Bob > >Just one GOTO! That's great. Dr. Dijkstra, and other software engineers, would >be happy with Crafty's code. > >Goto Considered Harmful! (http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/). A pioneering >article on the topic and software engineering in general. An interesing read. > >Regards >Hasnain. But there also exists a flood of responses to this assessing ``"Goto Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful''! The most well-known of these responses being written by Donald E. Knuth. The bottom line of the responses resonated around the common-sense wisdom that every good scheme can greatly backfire by being overdone. =Ernst=
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