Reply to: I just triggered a Millennial

[BlueSharp]

Don't forget recursion, they hate / don't understand that

[DoctorStrangelove]

Don't forget recursion, they hate / don't understand that

Ah.

Stack eating for beginners.

[Dark Black]

Don't forget recursion, they hate / don't understand that

[DoctorStrangelove]

One machine I used allowed one to build an instruction in a register and then execute it.

That was fun.

[NigelJK]

Once you've mastered the 'fashionable' GOTO band waggon, write some self modifying code.

[JamesBrown11]

Run the code through a minifier/obfuscator then hire an intern and tell him to refactor it

[NotAllThere]

Push the address on the stack and then return.


You lot really are amateurs.

Pah. Read and write from the stack directly, you wuss.

[Zigenare]

Push the address on the stack and then return.


You lot really are amateurs.

[DoctorStrangelove]

GOTOs are for lightweights. What you really need are assigned GOTOs, and lots of them.

Yup, I was thinking that too.

Which I've only ever seen used in one program and I've never used it myself

[AtW]

GOTO is for amateurs.

Pros use JMP

[OwlHoot]

GOTOs are for lightweights. What you really need are assigned GOTOs, and lots of them.

It's the programming equivalent of St Trinians girls hopping off their train, changing the points, hopping back on, and then heading off down a different set of tracks!

Shortly before leaving my first permie role many years ago, I wrote a vast COBOL program with loads of "ASSIGN TO PROCEED TO" statements, which are the COBOL equivalent.

[d000hg]

I suggested implementing GO TO functionality in the rule engine syntax we're developing.

Off to the incinerator with me.

GOTO has been a source of ire long before Millenials were old enough to land jobs!

I only discovered recently C# now lets you switch on, well just about anything... random values, strings, object types.

You can now literally compare apples and oranges.

[Old Greg]

Do you get extra points for triggering a millenial?

10 Print "Hello World"
20 Print "I'm sorry. I don't understand that."
30 Go To 10

FTFY

[NotAllThere]

This one is the client, and is, in fact, a pretty good programmer.

[JamesBrown11]

I found that the best way to trigger a millenial dev is to let them develop a larger feature and then reject it saying it's over-engineered garbage