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		metadope 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we ... >5) goto 1 This. Here is your main Microsoft engineering failure, using a Basic goto statement in their implementation of a marketing algorithm. Shame!

spwa4 32 days ago [–]

You're right. This should be a recursive call, so as to express that eventually a stack overflow crash will occur.

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