>>>>>>>'a pile' doesnt begin to define it! but it was the FIRST language
>>>>>>>published without a GOTO! (at least in my knowledge).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Isn't 'C' and 'Pascal' older than that?
>>>>>
>>>>>i do believe (been a while) that they both support GOTO.
>>>>
>>>>indeed they are
>>>>
>>>>Arnon
>>>
>>>GOTO??? dBase III+ also supported it! But, I guess what you mean is that
>>>it didn't rely on it but rather started enforcing structured programming? There
>>>I agree :)
>>
>>dbaseII for CP/M DID NOT have a goto statement at all! and yes
>>it really enforced structured programming and design.
>
>But then, so do Pascal and C.

IMHO C gives you the 'Opportunity' to be structured. Yet I have seen scary, scary code from even scarier people. Recursive, spagetti, and just poor. But, on the other side of the coin I have been honored to see some astonishingly good code. A great dino was Mel. Unfortunately, I never personaly met mel.

Mel, A REAL programmer

Excerpt from above link:
I have often felt that programming is an art form,
whose real value can only be appreciated
by another versed in the same arcane art;
there are lovely gems and brilliant coups
hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,
by the very nature of the process.
You can learn a lot about an individual
just by reading through his code,
even in hexadecimal.