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

[Andrew Dalke]

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