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Fri Apr 13 20:19:00 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/067559.html

What is "MIX"????

Andrew Dalke wrote:

> 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.
>
> No need to followup - just wanted to complain about MIX (again :)
>
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at acm.org

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