Re: GOTO controversy

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From: Dan Hicks
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 01:18

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In <4jq2en$g2q@news.cais.com>, dlabell@paltech.com (David Labell) writes:
>I write this from the standpoint of someone who has spent a career poking 
>through stuff like the above -- writing it weird just so you can say you 
>didn't do ____. 

All that time and you still haven't learned that "recur" is the verb 
meaning "to perform recursion"?  "Recursing" is what you do when
you once again read "clever" code.

Dan Hicks
http://www.millcomm.com/~danhicks/

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From: danhicks@millcomm.com (Dan Hicks)
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Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
Date: 5 Apr 1996 01:18:12 GMT
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