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.
When I put wood on the campfire, I refer to it as “initiating a logon procedure”.
How do you feel about “GOTO”?
That’s not a word.
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!
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.)