GOTO still considered harmful? [closed]

Answer 1

Denying the use of the GOTO statement to programmers is like telling a carpenter not to use a hammer as it Might damage the wall while he is hammering in a nail. A real programmer Knows How and When to use a GOTO. I’ve followed behind some of these so-called ‘Structured Programs’ I’ve see such Horrid code just to avoid using a GOTO, that I could shoot the programmer. Ok, In defense of the other side, I’ve seen some real spaghetti code too and again, those programmers should be shot too.

Here is just one small example of code I’ve found.

  YORN = ''
  LOOP
  UNTIL YORN = 'Y' OR YORN = 'N' DO
     CRT 'Is this correct? (Y/N) : ':
     INPUT YORN
  REPEAT
  IF YORN = 'N' THEN
     CRT 'Aborted!'
     STOP
  END

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10:  CRT 'Is this Correct (Y)es/(N)o ':

     INPUT YORN

     IF YORN='N' THEN
        CRT 'Aborted!'
        STOP
     ENDIF
     IF YORN<>'Y' THEN GOTO 10