Timeline for Is using goto ever worthwhile?
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| Jul 8, 2021 at 19:37 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 6, 2021 at 21:28 | answer | added | klutt | timeline score: 1 | |
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| May 20, 2020 at 8:34 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| May 23, 2017 at 7:54 | comment | added | Pacerier | @user1249, That's ur limitation, not of {others, all}. Also see this. Humans comprehend the way they are {taught, used} to. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 7:53 | comment | added | Pacerier | @TheLQ, obligatory: xkcd author is a math guy, not a code guy. I'd not think he even wrote a line of code? | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 6:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackProgrammer/status/774489664279412737 | ||
| S Aug 28, 2016 at 22:57 | history | suggested | Eagle-Eye | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Fixed grammar. |
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| Feb 6, 2012 at 16:32 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 14:54 | answer | added | user16764 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 11:55 | answer | added | Graham Borland | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 10:30 | comment | added | SK-logic | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen, of course goto is not required. It is just the most rational way of implementing them in the imperative languages, since it is the closest thing to the very semantics of the state transition. And its destination can be quite far from the source, it won't hinder the readability. My favourite example of such a code is D.E. Knuth's implementation of the Adventure game. | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 10:26 | comment | added | user1249 | @SK-logic, depends on how far away you will allow goto's to come from. State machines do not require goto to implement. | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 10:10 | comment | added | SK-logic | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen, what else humans mean when they're talking about state transitions in a state machine? Can't you see a similarity? "Go to a given state", that's what it means and anything else would be nothing but an unnecessary complication of such a trivial thing. And what do you mean by "no mark"? Label is such a mark. | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 | comment | added | user1249 | goto is what the cpu ultimately do, but it does not work well with what humans need to comprehend and abstract due to there is no mark on the target end. Compare to Intercal COMEFROM. | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 9:51 | answer | added | Keith Thompson | timeline score: 60 | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 9:18 | answer | added | Emilio Garavaglia | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 8:14 | answer | added | AdamJonR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 6, 2010 at 22:14 | answer | added | Timwi | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 23:52 | answer | added | blucz | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 23:25 | comment | added | TheLQ | xkcd.com/292 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 23:09 | vote | accept | Casebash | ||
| Sep 2, 2010 at 22:42 | answer | added | Walter | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 22:40 | answer | added | Fishtoaster | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 21:59 | answer | added | user8 | timeline score: 59 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 21:58 | answer | added | Chinmay Kanchi | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 21:49 | history | asked | Casebash | CC BY-SA 2.5 |