Re: GOTO controversy

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From: xian the desk lisard
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 15:08

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thus spake David Labell in comp.lang.misc...

. Here's a guy who would rather recurse than loop. I don't mean to be rude, but 
. this is typical of C programmers. Why not write it so it says what it does? 

isn't it really rather more typical of lisp programmers...?
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Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
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