Yes. The author of the linked comment in fact complains that goto-less programming has led to the gratuitous overuse of subroutines. In the absence of modern o

Yes. The author of the linked comment in fact complains that goto-less programming has led to the gratuitous overuse of subroutines. In the absence of modern optimizing compilers this was very inefficient. Imagine the authors horror had he witnessed the use of properties in modern object oriented languages! Of course, properties are almost always trivial for an optimizing compiler, or a JITC, to inline, and inlining is the mother of all optimizations.