[fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

Vinzent Höfler JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net
Tue Apr 15 13:44:24 CEST 2008



Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> Ah....the old goto arguing....how many beers have gone with it!
>> Linus is just right, since everyday the purists of the OO languages
>> still can't live without writing a GOTO; they just call it in another
>> "politically correct" way:
>>
>>     raise Exception.Create("TA-DA!")
> 
> There is a fundamental difference. You don't know where exactly this will
> end up (jump and destination are decoupled), and that destination can differ
> depending on calling sequence.

Which, in some cases art least, makes "doing it the right way" even 
worse. :D


Vinzent.




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