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On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 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.

Respect.

>   Close enough?
>
>                 -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>



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