[Coco] C VS Basic Coco

[Rob Rosenbrock]

Glad to see someone else using Realbasic! (Or, as it's known now: Xojo) I
switched to it years ago and use it for various little projects. I
especially like the cross-platform benefits.

I don't think the GOTO command even exists in Realbasic. It's not needed
when you can create a nested routine instead of having to jump around
several lines of code.

> Let me please point out that you stuck on the goto commands when your
> using
> basic compilers like Realbasic you can write code without using goto
> commands.
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:06:38 +0000
>> From: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
>>
>> Ask Dykstra.  Or just look at the decades of research into why GOTOs are
>> bad.
>> In one of my last professional programming gigs I took more than a dozen
>> programs heavily laced with GOTOs (true spaghetti code!!) and using
>> proper
>> structured programming removed all of them.  While I am not one who
>> heavily
>> favors standards bodies I think when they decided to come up with a
>> BASIC
>> standard it should have deprecated the GOTO entirely.
>>
>> bill
>> ==============================================
>> While I can understand that there is such a thing as to many GOTOs, it's
>> very useful in some cases. You can misuse anything! A GOTO statement is
>> the
>> simplest way to call up a subroutine, such as in a program menu. Really
>> simple code -- I haven't coded in so long I can't remember the real code
>> for a keypress... but "IF X THEN GOTO 500" is pretty darned simple and
>> handy for calling a subroutine from a menu. Hmm... would be a line for
>> key
>> polling, then a list of GOTO lines for the selections.... or a range in
>> one
>> line... I forget!!
>>  Frank Swygert
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