In article ,
Duane Bozarth wrote:
Mark & Juanita wrote:
...
When we transitioned from doing algorithm development in Fortran to C,
one of our more senior alg developers finally acquiesced and decided he
could live with using C when he found the GOTO statement.

Absolutely brilliant algorithm developer, you just didn't want to have to
be the one who had to figure out what his code was doing.

...

Then I'll wager his C code was no easier to read than his Fortran...

I can show you code that is _much_clearer_ with the use of the carefully
implemented goto than the equivalent mess in a "pure" structured form.

We won't even discuss setjmp()/longjmp() -- that's getting perilously close
to the COBOL "ALTER" verb.

And then there were the people that threatened to implement a 'COMEFROM'
statement.