Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:33:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? |
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On 12 Jan 2003, Robert Love wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > No, you've been brainwashed by CS people who thought that Niklaus > > Wirth actually knew what he was talking about. He didn't. He > > doesn't have a frigging clue. > > I thought Edsger Dijkstra coined the "gotos are evil" bit in his > structured programming push?
Yeah, he did, but he's dead, and we shouldn't talk ill of the dead. So these days I can only rant about Niklaus Wirth, who took the "structured programming" thing and enforced it in his languages (Pascal and Modula-2), and thus forced his evil on untold generations of poor CS students who had to learn langauges that weren't actually useful for real work.
(Yeah, yeah, most _practical_ versions of Pascal ended up having all the stuff necessary to break structure, but as you may be able to tell, I was one of the unwashed masses who had to write in "standard Pascal" in my youth. I'm scarred for life).
Linus
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