OK, first of all, I am not a programmer. (yes, I heard the “thank god”) Perhaps I could make the top example simpler.
But anyway, I kind of like goto too much. I find it more intuitive to just jump around and re-use parts rather than think about how to do loops without too much nesting.
In high school, we only did Python. I really wanted to do goto in Python as well, but all I found was this April fools’ goto module.
Now in college we’re starting with C, and I am starting with Bad HabitsTM.
Anyway, tagging every line was BASICally just for the joke, but it is useful to just jump to any random line.
I haven’t yet mastered Vim, but say I want to delete a block of text, then I immediately see the relative line number up to which I want to delete lines + 1 (because current line is basically zero).
Say I have:
And I want do delete d,e and f, I do
3dd. With more lines, I don’t have to count.