For all you Unix Haters...

[RichardCranium]

There are few constructs that surpass the sheer elegance of

       ASSIGN200TOK
       GOTOK

except

       ASSIGN20TOK
       GOTOK

?

[Spacecadet]

There is nothing wrong with the use of "goto" in the "right" place!

usually at line 20

20 GOTO 10

[Churchill]

"Many users had come from systems that they felt were far more sophisticated in computer science terms, and were tremendously frustrated by the worse is better design philosophy that they felt Unix and much of its software encapsulated."

Probably the same attitude that led Dijkstra to assert that "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California"

But he's the guy who first argued the harmfulness of GOTO (which was an important point to make in stressing the necessity for structured programming, when programming was still a virtually unknown craft) so I shall continue to define my classes and instantiate my objects, whilst also continuing to explore the writings of such progenitors of the craft of software in the hope that I can keep on getting better at writing it

There is nothing wrong with the use of "goto" in the "right" place!

[NickFitz]

Why would anyone hate Unix, my Sky box runs the crap

"Many users had come from systems that they felt were far more sophisticated in computer science terms, and were tremendously frustrated by the worse is better design philosophy that they felt Unix and much of its software encapsulated."

Probably the same attitude that led Dijkstra to assert that "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California"

But he's the guy who first argued the harmfulness of GOTO (which was an important point to make in stressing the necessity for structured programming, when programming was still a virtually unknown craft) so I shall continue to define my classes and instantiate my objects, whilst also continuing to explore the writings of such progenitors of the craft of software in the hope that I can keep on getting better at writing it

[bodnobal]

Why would anyone hate Unix, my Sky box runs the crap

[xoggoth]

1994 and it is being touted by zeitghost as a must read? Surely you mean 1894?

[NickFitz]

Bear in mind that this was published in 1994, so much of what it says is about as relevant to modern versions of Unix as criticism of Windows 3.1 is to Vista or XP...

...but it's still a funny book, and there's some good computer science in there

[zeitghost]

http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/free...dbook-pdf.html