Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

Marshall wrote:

> On Jul 1, 7:40 am, hru...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Herman Rubin) wrote:

>>As for gotos, I find them easy to use,
>>and spaghetti code is best for spaghetti algorithms.
> 
> Sure, gotos are easy to write, but what's usually im****tant
> for code is that it be easy to read and easy to maintain,
> and gotos are anathema to that.

I think nowadays nobody, except Herman, will argue in favour of gotos.
On the other hand, I find that the Object Oriented Programming paradigm
has given rise to bad programming practices, such as putting more and
more software layers on top of each other, so many that even a GigaHerz
processor can hardly plough through them, in execution time.

Han de Bruijn