>        I'll bet he gets there by the shortest path.
> Referring to his "Goto considered harmful" etc.
> Sad to see these people go. 3 others I've
> noticed lately were: Richard Stevens, Jim Ellis
Interesting. I've always wondered about things 'considered' to be bad.
Example the GOTO, most languages support a goto of some sort, so are gotos really bad?
Is a loop or a recursive call actually any better than a goto
or is the goto used as a kind of common enemy of
to make sure people use loops or recursion?
<<To iterate is human, to recurse divine>>
Kind of makes you wonder about things considered to be 'good'.
For example people bang on about polymorphism, but is there actually any advantage in using an overloaded function based on class inheritance?

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