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GeneralWorking on some code and came across the Gem: Pin
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lopatir14-Nov-16 4:02
lopatir14-Nov-16 4:02 
Very true. Back in the days of MS Basic there was barely any flow control:
.. GOTO <line number>
.. IF <cond> THEN <line number> [ELSE <line number>]
.. FOR <var> = <startval> TO <endval> [STEP +/- val] ... NEXT

That was it. (even the If is a conditional goto).

Surprisingly code hasn't changed much these days - just got more verbose, now we have while, do, switch, break, continue ... - and if you think about it all of those "new" things are just a slightly better controlled version of IF <cond> THEN <line number=""> [ELSE <line number="">]

We HAD to use goto, but in reality our "spaghetti code" was doing the exact same thing as people do today with "structured" code. It's not that the new programming languages fixed anything at all - just hid the truth behind new verbs.

Summary: yes we loved our GOTOs, not just because we had no choice, but because we had the balls to use them, and use them really really well. Yes - balls: ladies included - although those days weren't many females into being a 'computer nerd' (- and we never really noticed that - we had our line printer Marilyn Monroe style pin-ups, and bak then that was enough.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate

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