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Goto is also useful... See why now?

• reificator 8y ago
  This comment contains more snark than content, but I'll reply anyway: Goto is considered harmful, but it's important to recognize the context of that decision rather than parroting the idea. It's not an obvious idea and if the discussion had happened today with modern languages[0] instead it's not at all obvious the same conclusions would be reached. This write-up does a pretty fair job of translating the original paper to something more modern without a lot of bias. http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html [0]: Modern languages of course learned from this paper, so that's not a fair comparison. In fact golang contains a goto, but it behaves well according to Dijkstra's concerns and occasionally results in more readable code. I would be shocked if Dijkstra took any issue with go's implementation.