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Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms

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From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:25
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In article <BxDH7G.8Cn@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> Those who rewrote my code without gotos had to work to do it.

Who cares?

The goal, after all, isn't eliminating the gotos. It's producing maintainable
code. The version I wrote from your code had just as many gotos (some were
switch statements, but it's a 5 minute job to convert them all back and
forth), but it was a lot more readable and maintainable. And I probably spent
less time on it than you spent on the code in the first place.

Frankly, your coding style as we've seen it on the net is so bad nobody can
take seriously any claim that minor syntax changes will make an atom of
difference to your productivity.

You're like someone who's been driving power boats around all his life, and
has no feel for the water. You need to do some sailing... sure, it's not
directly productive time, but neither is flaming on the net. Go, spend some
time learning how to write readable code and then come back. You'll be able
to explain things a lot better, and maybe make your point effectively enough
that people understand.
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Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
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