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Ivan Reese · Answer

Dijkstra

Arcade Wise · Answer

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Personal Dynamic Media · Answer

gt Dijkstra gt Knuth

Kartik Agaram · Answer

A friend of mine in the 90s had the following email signature that it took me forever to get gt A goto a day keeps the D a away

Kartik Agaram · Answer

And yes <http pic plover com knuth GOTO pdf|http pic plover com knuth GOTO pdf> is a great response to the D a

Jack Rusher · Answer

I m writing a parser in Clojure this morning and I can tell you that I m not enjoying the absence of a GOTO like mechanism `tagbody` in Common Lisp for example while building the state machine

Dave Liepmann · Answer

< Jack Rusher> are you aware of

Jack Rusher · Answer

< Dave Liepmann> Sadly it abuses the exception mechanism to produce a slow and buggy version of that feature I think the only good way to add `tagbody` in Clojure would involve voodoo to produce custom Java byte code