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On 10/06/2015 01:52 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?
>>
> 
> Nice.

  Actually, no, it wasn't nice at all.  I apologize for doing that; I'm
in a very poor mood tonight and that was below the belt.

> On the other hand I did some search and my impression is, according to
> quotes and books written by those guys, is that they didn't mean goto to
> be never used. They rather meant it used with care. Wikipedia has a nice
> summary on this:
> 
> 'In their quasi-standard book on the C programming language, Dennis
> Ritchie and Brian Kernighan warn that goto is "infinitely abusable", but
> also suggest that it could be used for end-of-function error handlers
> and for multi-level breaks from loops.'

  My opinion differs slightly.  I don't like shortcuts and I'm not a
lazy coder.  Goto is a shortcut that caters to lazy coders.  I get the
point they made above, but I still avoid it, and I still label as
"clueless" the people who don't.

> So my impression is still that you generalize your opinion, this time
> about goto, and imply other people have the same opinion.

  Ah, nice try, and a good interpretation, but that's not the thought
process here.  It's more a matter of just not caring about other
peoples' opinions about such basic things, and trusting my own
experience.  Occasional validation from higher-ups is nice but not
necessary at this point, and sometimes serves as a sanity check, but in
general I know my limitations and I trust myself.  This is not egotism,
it's simple professional confidence borne from experience and knowing
where the dragons lie because I've stumbled in and awakened them a few
times already.

               -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA