Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 11/21/24 19:48, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:09:29 +0000, Pancho wrote:
 

GOTO was deprecated before BBC Basic circa 1981. I never really saw it,
apart from reasonable GOTO error usages. Wasn't it more a sign of lack
of training than a linguistic feature?

 I never understood the goto hate that Dijkstra had. It could be used to
produce hideous code but has valid uses. I'm amused by the syntactic sugar
used by many languages to conceal what is obviously a goto under the hood
amd of you dig far enough you get down to JMP, JNE, and similar opcodes.
 

Well obviously, a do while is a branch and a jump. The idea was not to eliminate jumps but to impose a structure upon them. So much of good programming is imposing structure, imposing good practice rules to make the code more understandable, more manageable.
You can use good modern programming paradigms in C: OO, pure functions, bounds checked  arrays, and automatic memory deallocation, it is just easier with languages which give you syntactic sugar, and specific linguistic features.