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On 10/06/2015 12:07 AM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>> list in the past several weeks are accomplishing little other than
>> proving that there can be no consensus here.
>>
>>  Personally I treat this a bit like the existence of "goto" in C: It is
>> never, ever intended to actually be used in code.  It is a "sign post".
> 
> Do you have any reference on this? I mean a quote from the guys who
> actually developed C and added goto in the first place? Or is is just
> your guess?

  A "reference"?  No, but your attempt to dismiss it as a "guess" will
fail.  I hate name-dropping, so I won't drop any names.

  It was presented to me as an opinion by a mentor and former employer
of mine a long time ago, as he was teaching me the basics of C.  Perhaps
we can call that an "educated guess".  ~30 years of C programming later,
I've taken that opinion as my own.  Perhaps we can call that an
"experienced guess".  So, during this conversation:

  http://www.neurotica.com/misc/DSC_0193.JPG

  ...I asked "one of the guys who actually developed C" about it and he
concurred, with a hearty laugh.

  Close enough?

                -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA