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In the Absence of a GoTo Statement: Newbie needs menu-launcher to choose amongst sub-programs

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"Andrew Dalke" <dalke at acm.org> wrote in messagenews:9b814u$39p$1 at slb4.atl.mindspring.net...> Alex-bot:> > the answer is: "because, in a well-designed language, there> >is no situation in which ``nothing else will do as well''":-).>> I've just been rereading some of Knuth's "The Art of Computer> Programming."  I don't do it very often because I get a> headache trying to understand his use of gotos, which aren't> simply nested (directly convertable to structured loops)> and which aren't error-handling-like (convertable to exceptions).>> So Python is not a well-designed language for direct> translation of MIX code because it doesn't have gotos.Indeed, such direct translation is not among Python's designtargets.  In general, reverse engineering low level code backup to high levels is rather a nightmare anyway.It's better to design and code at the higher level from thestart...> No need to followup - just wanted to complain about MIX (again :)Since when did lack of need stop me?-)Alex

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