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

[Ricardo Aguiar]

Hi!

GCC and almost all the other C implementations have the goto 
statement. It is just ugly and dangerous use it many times in a 
program. But IMHO any compiled language should have goto 
because many times we need to do unstructured code to run 
fast (in complex search code for example).  So goto is not a 
matter of principles about the language, it is just a "dirty and 
ugly" approach to solve problems that many times are useful. 

Anyway in my oppinion a very complex program in a structured 
language with more than a dozen gotos should not be considered 
a good pratice (except for kernel internals and things like this -- that 
many times would be a lot more complex without the gotos). 

Ric.


On Thursday 17 April 2008, Marco Alvarado wrote:
> The problem of GOTO is that C doesn't have one. If C had one, and
> Pascal didn't have a GOTO, they would blame Pascal for not having it.
> In assembler GOTOs make a lot of sense (i.e. JMP and Jxx), and it's
> weird C doesn't have one, after all C tries to be the lowest level of
> the highest level languages. It's great Pascal have both high and low
> level features.
>