[net.lang] Discouraging "GOTO"s in introductory

mwm@ea.UUCP (06/01/84)

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ea!mwm    May 31 16:07:00 1984

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>There's no way you can avoid GOTOs in COBOL, try as you might.

I'm not sure I believe this.  I would like to be convinced that
this is so.  Whether one should or should not use GOTOs in COBOL
is, of course, an entirely different matter.

					Larry Johnson
					ihnp4!wnuxb!laj
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Larry, you are correct not to believe this. The person who taught the
COBOL course I took claimed have written a goto-less production COBOL
program. She also said that it made the thing a *lot* longer (truly bad
news for COBOL!).

	<mike