Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Steve Holden]

alex goldman wrote:
> Daniel Silva wrote:
> 
> 
>>At any rate, FOLD must fold.
> 
> 
> I personally think GOTO was unduly criticized by Dijkstra. With the benefit
> of hindsight, we can see that giving up GOTO in favor of other primitives
> failed to solve the decades-old software crisis.

What software crisis? Knuth (among others) has demonstrated that it's 
possible to do structured programming in assembly language (though I 
have to say that not all his MIX was particularly well-structured).

The danger in GOTO is that it allows the undisciplined programmer to 
develop a badly-structured solution to a programming problem. A 
disciplined programmer will write well-structured code with whatever 
tools come to hand.

regards
  Steve
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