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Everybody and their grandpa knows (the meme title of) Dijkstra's Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful (submitted under the title: A case against the goto statement), but most forget the context of the 60s in which it was written, things we take for granted were a novelty back then. GOTO fight-time
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I just say: They should try to program something in Assembler or in a PLC without the JMP instruction...
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Arguing along the same lines: We all use GOTOs, all the time. The brace closing the loop is just an alternate syntax for 'GOTO [start of loop]'.
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The If has a goto jumping the else when it match
the else is the target of a goto when the condition didn't match.
The problem is not the tool, is the incorrect use of the tool.
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So use assembler JMPs in the same, structured way as high level language compilers generates them.
Even if the assembler gives you a lot of freedom to make JMPs that are not well disciplined and structured, resist the urge to use JMPs that way. Stick to the structured mechanism. Code them the way a compiler (or let us say: an ideal compiler) would do.
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I never minded a GOTO that went backward in the code. It was the forward GOTO that bothered me.
The switch statement is really a controlled GOTO, Shh.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: The switch statement is really a controlled GOTO, Shh.
Yeah, that goes FORWARD. Which "bothers" you. ??? Try / catch is the same -- a controlled goto on error.
A goto that goes forward to the end of the block or to an "error block" I think is fine.
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I realize that the switch has GOTOs going forward but it is controlled. I was referring to some code I encounter a LONG time ago, before 1999. The function printed out to more than 20 pages of greenbar paper. Why did I print it? Because the last bug fix caused it to blow up the Microsoft 5.1 C compiler. Too many nested if levels. I got to refactor the thing, the term didn't exist back then, so I rewrote it to break it into functions so it would compile. I guess it was "technical debt" (sorry Kent I used the term)
True spaghetti code.
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Yeah, I've seen code like that. Still do. Functions with 2,000+ (yes, two-thousand) lines in it. No gotos, but lots of nested if/while/for/switch/etc... statements. Truly awful. It didn't start life that way. It grew organically for over 20+ years as features were added to the product and bugs fixed. Nobody thought, hey, let's add small function with the necessary logic and call it from here. NOOOOOO. Gotta put it all right here. Gaaaaaaaaaaah! Amateurs.
Now imagine a whole file with 20 such functions in it. I don't have to imagine. I've seen it.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Because the last bug fix caused it to blow up the Microsoft 5.1 C compiler. Too many nested if levels.
Some time around 1980 there was an article, I believe it was in SIGplan Notices (SIGplan - the Special Interest Group for programming LANguages of the ACM), with a title "The rightward migration of source code". I wish I had saved a photocopy of that article! (That is: If you have got a copy of it, please tell!)
I make frequent use of 'break' and premature 'return' to avoid having to make printouts in landscape format (or today: so that the source code display won't require two screens side-by-side). I also repeatedly present my thoughts about extended flow constructs: A major justification for them is to reduce nesting levels, and to remove the few last traces of gotos. No one seems to have any interest in those ideas (with the exception of those having had access to them in the (proprietary) Planc language  ).
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If you are programming in C++ using Microsoft tools, you can use the traditional Visual Studio compiler. Or you can use LLVM as a front-end (ClangCL). Clang, clang, clang, went the compiler
Sorry, but that's what always goes through my head when I see something about the Clang compiler
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Move over artificial intelligence, say hello to "organoid intelligence" (OI). "Uh, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?"
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That might be useful...
Depending on whose brain they use, that will make a step back of several years  
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LastPass revealed more information on a "coordinated second attack," where a threat actor accessed and stole data from the Amazon AWS cloud storage servers for over two months. I told you DevOps was dangerous
edit: fixed typo
modified 28-Feb-23 14:20pm.
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Quote: "The threat actor was able to capture the employee's master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer's LastPass corporate vault," reads a new security advisory published today.
"The threat actor then exported the native corporate vault entries and content of shared folders, which contained encrypted secure notes with access and decryption keys needed to access the AWS S3 LastPass production backups, other cloud-based storage resources, and some related critical database backups."
Ouch... 
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In my experience, if a single programmer builds something, it’s often hard for others to maintain later. Who was that masked developer?
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Kind of mandatory: xkcd: Dependency[^]
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And when 10 build something, it's even harder.
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In my experience, no matter how many developers a company has, only one developer knows about a given project.
So, in almost all cases it is a lone developer ...
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Microsoft announced 2023's first major batch of updates for Windows 11, part of the company's plan to release new Windows features "when they are ready" instead of waiting for the big annual update in the fall. If you're living in the moment
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Unhappy with OpenAI, which he co-founded, Musk is reportedly in talks with recently departed DeepMind AI researcher Igor Babuschkin. * Chat window may experience sudden acceleration and/or braking
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Is the new AI going to replace him tweeting?
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Why should you try the latest preview? Because it’s like living in the future – you get to try all the capabilities that we’re actively working on for the upcoming 17.6 release, influence their development early by providing your suggestions and by reporting any problem you encounter. "Don't you fret. We're living in the future, and none of this has happened yet"
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A new report on the antivirus market from Security.org reveals that almost three-quarters of Americans still strongly believe computers need antivirus to protect their devices and 61 percent are relying on free options like Microsoft Defender. And 61% of them don't know they're running antivirus software
And a few more percent after it gets auto-installed on some machines
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