Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Yes, "structured programming" was the term used.  Structured
> programming uses functions, while loops, if/then/else statements, and
> so on, instead of "GOTO 1230" type commands, to control a program's flow.

Like with Rocky Mountain BASIC of HP 9000 machines in contrast to the
MS-BASIC of my VIC-20.


> Even the most primitive Unix Bourne shell (sh) has no GOTO command.

I was never a fan of Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"
and perceive modern spaghetti inheritence as more obscure than any goto
noodling.

This paragraph in Linux docs comprehensively shows why C still has its
goto:
  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.0/process/coding-style.html
  "7) Centralized exiting of functions"


Have a nice day :)

Thomas