Re:Object Oriented Programming Oversold (2001)
by acveilleux on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:44AM
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Fortran IV would let you GO TO out of a DO loop into a whole different procedure's DO loop. (It didn't have FOR.)
But why limit yourself to GO TO to fixed places??? Fortran IV also let you GO TO an arbitrary statement that would only be chosen at run-time "assigned goto".
Fortran 77 still has that capability but you can limit it to specifically selected statements and it won't GO TO outside of the current unit (a concept Fortran IV lacked.)
Dijkstra's remarks were contemporary of Fortran IV.
But why limit yourself to GO TO to fixed places??? Fortran IV also let you GO TO an arbitrary statement that would only be chosen at run-time "assigned goto".
Fortran 77 still has that capability but you can limit it to specifically selected statements and it won't GO TO outside of the current unit (a concept Fortran IV lacked.)
Dijkstra's remarks were contemporary of Fortran IV.