Where Does GOTO Go to?
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Although GOTO has long been criticized for being \unstruc-tured" and causing \unreliable" programs, it is still in use and even modern languages like Ada95 provide GOTO. Why? This paper presents the results of a study in which we examined 316 MB of Ada source code in order to nd the frequency and typical applications of GOTO. It turned out that about 99% of all examined les do not contain any GOTO, but we also found \spaghetti code", generally justiied by eeciency arguments. We analyzed whether GOTO really improved eeciency and examined sources containing GOTO by code inspection in order to determine its typical applications.
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تاریخ انتشار 1996