Is a computer language with goto's totally Wirth-less?
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- Is a computer language with goto's totally Wirth-less?
- C is a Wirth-less language.
- Why is Pascal a five cent language? That's how much a Nicholas Wirth (Niklaus Wirth) (nickel is worth).
- Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.
- C provides the infinitely-abusable GOTO statement, and labels to
branch to.
Formally, the GOTO is never necessary, and in practice it is almost always easy to write code without it.... - INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n.
[said by the authors to stand
for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer
language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one... - oy language n.
A language useful for instructional
purposes or as a proof-of-concept for some aspect of
computer-science theory, but inadequate for general-purpose
programming.
Bad Things can result when a toy language is promoted as a general purpose solution for programming (see bondage-and-discipline language)...
