# Logon/logoff **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842 "2012-10-05T20:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842/21 "2012-10-07T14:58:52Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > In fact, if “set” was not the past tense of “set”, I bet people would would not say “I previously setuped” and would instead say “I previously setted up.” I sat up my new computer yesterday. If I can get enough people to start saying that, it’ll be in the OED in a few years. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842/22 "2012-10-07T15:21:38Z")
When I put wood on the campfire, I refer to it as “initiating a logon procedure”. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842/23 "2012-10-07T23:49:44Z")
How do you feel about “GOTO”? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842/24 "2012-10-08T00:20:56Z")
That’s not a word. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842/25 "2012-10-08T00:35:42Z")
Stop telling me to log onto your web site. I don’t have a password or a username; I’m not logging on! I’m going to your web site. I’m visiting your website. I’m browsing your web site but I am not logging on dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842/26 "2012-10-08T11:41:50Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > How do you feel about “GOTO”? I think GOTO (or goto) was a fine construct to use in computer programs, an eminently useful programming tool that made many logic tasks easy, that are utterly cumbersome in today’s goto-free software world. After a few more generations of programmers have come and passed, when there is no longer any living memory of the old forsaken GOTO statement, this is what will happen: Somebody, who never heard of it, will re-invent it afresh. That somebody will have a flash of inspiration. He will see that the innovative “new” goto construct will vastly simplify the whole programming body of methodology. He will write a letter to the editor of The Journal of the ACM, which will be published under the headline “GOTO Statement Considered Helpful”, which will initiate a revolution in the conception and design of software. (It will actually be a counter-revolution of course, but there will be nobody alive then who knows that.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logon-logoff/636842.md?page=1)