[Oberon] GOTO

[Chris Burrows]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM <peter at easthope.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Happy New Year!  The list has become very quiet.
>

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  ;-)

At the beginning of last November I noticed a discussion of GOTO in
> the DNG list.  I don't have programming experience to make a
> significant response.  Some of you may be interested.
>
> I like xkcd's typical humorous comment on the subject:

https://xkcd.com/292/

But for a more serious observation (from 20 years ago!) refer to Section
4.2. *The GO TO statement* in *Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass*,
Niklaus Wirth, 2005:

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf

Regards,
Chris

--
Chris Burrows
https://www.astrobe.com
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