Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: rpl (plinnane3REMOVE_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:26:49 -0500

Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> In article <FOGdnbbg6c5UnYvfRVn-1A@rogers.com>,
> plinnane3REMOVE@NOSPAMyahoo.com (rpl) writes:
>
>
>>Modern (as in post 1975 <grin>) methods woulda tossed the "is this
>>a call from the subroutine?" test into the bin and put whatever the
>>common statements were outside the mainline to be PERFORMed from the
>>mainline as well as from everywhere else.
>
>
> And then I would quarantine the original source code in the hope of
> preventing it from infecting new programmers.

If that were the only one, you could drop the label from the mainline as
well thus making it nice and safe for posterity.

> IMHO COBOL's ability
> to both PERFORM a paragraph and fall through it is one of the truly
> evil aspects of the language. And I mean that by any standard,
> post-1975 or not. It's right up there with ALTER in my books.
> (Now I'm thinking about that line from "The Common Business-Oriented
> Goldilocks": IF DOOR IS LOCKED OR BEARS ARE GREATER THAN ZERO
> ALTER ENTER-GOLDILOCKS TO PROCEED TO HASTY-RETREAT.)
>

ELSE OPEN DOOR SET IN-COMFY-CHAIR READ BEDTIME-STORY AT END CLOSE BOOK
GOTO BED.

:)

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