Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

[justin walters]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> D'Arcy Cain <darcy at VybeNetworks.com> writes:
> >of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
> >theory behind what I am doing.
>
>   I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
>   the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when
>   it is executed, its for loop eventually is implemented using
>   a GOTO-like jump instruction. Thanks to my learning of BASIC,
>   /I/ can have this insight. Younger people, who never learned
>   GOTO, may still be able to use Python, but they will not
>   understand what is going on behind the curtains. Therefore, for
>   a profound understanding of Python, everyone should learn BASIC
>   first, just like I did!
>
>   ;-)
>
>
>
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As a young person (read: late 20s), the one thing I've learned is that if a
language
has a `GOTO` instruction, it's probably a bad idea to use said instruction.

I'm sure there's exceptions to this rule, but I'm lucky enough to have
better solutions
for calling the same procedure multiple times, i.e. functions.

I always wonder what my "old man yells at cloud" moment will be once I get
older.