Reply to post: Re: “Goto statement considred harmful”

Radio 4 and Dr K on programming languages: Full of Java Kool-Aid

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Re: “Goto statement considred harmful”

The real problem was the lack of transparency in ancient Fortrash and Basic were GOTO went to line number not a procedure call. Very difficult to debug or understand if the code had any complexity.

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