Break is goto in disguise

On the python list there was a discussion about break.  I made the comment that break is just a euphemism for goto.  I thought that this would be a commonplace. However google does not give many useful hits for this.

So thought I'd cook up an example.
Here is Apple's famous SSL-bug in shortform

Unicode in Python

1 Introduction

Python has been making long strides in embracing unicode. With python 3 we are at a stage where python programs can support unicode well however python program-source is still completely drawn from the ASCII subset of unicode.
Well… Actually with python 3 (not 2) this is already possible

def solvequadratic(a,b,c):
    Δ = b*b - 4*a*c
    α = (-b + sqrt(Δ))/(2*a)
    β = (-b - sqrt(Δ))/(2*a)
    return (α, β)

>>> solvequadratic(1,-5,6)
(3.0, 2.0)
>>>

Now to move ahead!

Dance of Functional Programming

Languaging with Haskell and Python

We dont need no Ooooo-Orientation – 3

In my earlier posts Ive discussed some context around why OO has been one of the more dismal failures in the history of IT/CS.
Here I talk of the error in thinking 'inheritance'.
And this gives the philosophical separation between those drawn to OOP and those not.

Before I come to the meat of the matter – why OO sucks – it would be good in all fairness, to deal with the

Very few successes of OOP