You must have misheard. Look at some perl libraries or the scripts in the tutorial section of this site. You will find lots of subroutines.

There is a general "hatred" of goto, yes. But advice to not use goto was already voiced more than 20 years ago when bad programming style was prevalent in the old programming language BASIC. No matter what language you will use (except for machine language) you will get warned about using goto. goto was the first symbol of bad programming and it still is an (almost sure) sign for bad code

But that has nothing to do with subroutines. We love subroutines. Subroutines are your first line of defense against unmanagable unreadable code

In reply to Re: organizing program structure by jethro
in thread organizing program structure by dr_jkl

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