Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

On Jul 4, 1:16 pm, ju...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On 4 Jul, 20:34, Marshall <marshall.spi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Jul 4, 11:55 am, goto <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > Frederick Williams wrote:
>
> > > > > I think nowadays nobody, except Herman, will argue in favour of
gotos.
>
> > > > There are common enough situations in which the goto is the
clearest
> > > > thing to use, so why wouldn't one use it?
>
> > > The principal objectioneers always were the academic airheads, those
who
> > > never wrote or imagined a real life program larger than a dozen
lines.
> > > Other than that,
>
> > >         "If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get
there."
>
> > Snort.
>
> > This was a fierce argument in the 1970s. Your side lost.
>
> That it lost doesn't necessarily mean it was wrong.

That the debate was settled decades ago and there
has been no meaningful question about it since is
a very, very strong indication that it was, in fact,
utterly wrong.


> Statistics on software projects' failures anyone?

So you blame the high rate of software project failures
on insufficient use of gotos, then? Remarkable.


> IMO, today's higher level programming languages, the ones actually
> used in the software industry I mean, mainly suffer of being hybrids
> between the conceptual and the technical domains.

You should say more stuff like this and less stuff about gotos.


Marshall