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genew@mail.ocis.net (Gene Wirchenko)
15 Jul 2003 23:52:21 -0400

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From: genew@mail.ocis.net (Gene Wirchenko)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Jul 2003 23:52:21 -0400
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Posted-Date: 15 Jul 2003 23:52:21 EDT

"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote:


[snip]


>Human intervention is never required. During the "structured
>programming" revolution of the late 1960s/early 1970s, Bohm & Jacopini
>showed a mechanical procedure for the elimination of GOTO statements,
>back in 1970. Their goal was to show that GOTO was not necessary in
>programming languages, and they succeeded. The programs resulting
>from their technique are not particularly interesting, however: their
>technique essentially recasts the GOTO-spaghetti-coded program as a
>giant finite state machine.


          There is a thread on this topic running in soc.history.what-if!
The reference there is Bohm, C. and G. Jacopini, _Comm. of the ACM_
9:5 (May 1966), 366-371. It was too much math notation for me to
follow. I hope YMWV.


[snip]


Sincerely,


Gene Wirchenko


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