News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by ptx on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:10AM (#13480436)
And a goto statement is even more general, covering all kinds of looping constructs, exceptions and even the eliminating the need for functions! Why not just use those?
Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by unscaled on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:21AM (#13480509)
For loops are yet another of these useless abstractions introduced by the academia, this time straight from the design-by-committee language ALGOL 60.

We all know real programmers used gotos.