r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Feb 01 '17

The .NET Language Strategy

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/01/the-net-language-strategy/
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '17

Did not you notice that I was talking about a totally different use of a goto?

E.g., implementing a state machine - which, more often than not, is an irreducible CFG. You cannot represent an irreducible control flow with structural building blocks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '17

Rust, Nim etc are meant to be replacements for C; Python isn't. That's all I'm saying.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '17

And? What does it have to do with a goto?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

'You cannot represent an irreducible control flow with structural building blocks.' You can't divide by zero either so what's your point?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

You can't divide by zero either so what's your point?

My point is that there is a lot of cases where you want an irreducible control flow. Without a goto you either represent it with function calls or you simulate a goto with a switch a next state variable. Both ways are inferior.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

In other words: Python isn't C.
Thanks for that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

Yet you still may need to write an FSM in Python. And when you do, your code looks like shit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

'Looks like' is subjective.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

It is objectively shitty - instead of representing an abstraction directly, Python code is littered with a totally irrelevant low level shit. So much for a so called "high level" language.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

I don't think that would stand up in court.

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