Idea: software dev / sys admin for Biomed. How old are you? When baby boomers stop forcing the healthcare industry bubble further up, do you still need a job? Also, maybe see a financial adviser, read some Forbes or Wall Street Journal; maybe you'll retire sooner; and if you hit the lottery, you don't want to know our answers to your question. Am I right or am I right?

I just say that arrays of labels, may be the oddest thing in C; the ANSI GNU version had none of it, only proprietary and I am assuming platform dependent / patented C implementations had the feature. This improved algorithmic performance, switch / case statements are sequential searches in a way; dynamically linked functions, before load time linkage, ie .so's where function pointers and still are slow (mainly used to dynamically link to a COFF or ELF on UNIX at runtime). Eventually virtual linkage at runtime made its' way as virtual inheritance to C++ and algorithms could take paths without doing a sequential search through case options. Not sure why anyone would think the result of assignment operation going into if statement is odd. Arrays of goto labels existed on Sun Microsystems "ANSI" C, those were the days.