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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by pault on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:30PM (#20794976)
What can you accomplish with goto that you can't accomplish with try/catch and custom errors?
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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by hibbelig on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:05AM (#20799534)
> What can you accomplish with goto that you can't accomplish with try/catch and custom errors?

You can program in C. C doesn't have try/catch...

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