There are two trains of thought on goto. On one side Donald Knuth and Linus Torvalts consider goto useful in specialized operations. Knuth uses goto in certain

There are two trains of thought on goto. On one side Donald Knuth and Linus Torvalts consider goto useful in specialized operations. Knuth uses goto in certain operations where it would be optimal to have the construct. Linus allows them when it would be a good optimization strategy but you must use them sensibly On the other hand Edsger Dijkstra thought that having goto's in the language complicated the analysis of loops and also the analysis of the flow of the program. Dijstra did a great deal of research on structured programming which nearly all programming languages support (loop design, if then statements etc...) Citations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto#cite_note-4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto#cite_note-4 http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pd...