This episode is about truisms that aren’t, in the world of the computer. I’ve already written an article, falsehoods programmers believe about programming, on a similar topic, but in this episode I go into way more depth on the counter-examples to one falsehood, rather than trying to supply a bulleted list of many falsehoods.
Other “falsehoods programmers believe” articles include falsehoods programmers believe about time (I said dates on the recording), and falsehoods programmers believe about addresses.
This episode’s falsehood is that go to statements are harmful, based on the assertion by Dijkstra (or was it?), Go To Statement Considered Harmful. Along the way we meet A Discipline of Programming, and the Psychological Study of Programming.
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