<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
Happy New Year! The list has become very quiet.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We've been too busy having a lot of fun working on Oberon software and releasing new versions of Astrobe to spend much time chatting here ;-)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
At the beginning of last November I noticed a discussion of GOTO in <br>
the DNG list. I don't have programming experience to make a <br>
significant response. Some of you may be interested.<br><br></blockquote><div>I like xkcd's typical humorous comment on the subject:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://xkcd.com/292/">https://xkcd.com/292/</a></div><div><br></div><div>But for a more serious observation (from 20 years ago!) refer to Section 4.2. <i>The GO TO statement</i> in <i>Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass</i>, Niklaus Wirth, 2005:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf">https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Chris Burrows</div><div><a href="https://www.astrobe.com">https://www.astrobe.com</a></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>