> Having a discussion with someone who quotes Dijkstra can be frustrating. Agreed. Most of the time, it seems the pithy quotes are the only thing that the quo

> Having a discussion with someone who quotes Dijkstra can be frustrating. Agreed. Most of the time, it seems the pithy quotes are the only thing that the quoter knows about Dijkstra. > You end up having to explain why blanket bans on goto don't make sense For Dijkstra's GOTO quote specifically, there's a wonderful document by David Tribble named "Go To Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective" that does a line-by-line analysis of Dijkstra's paper and explains what Dijkstra's meant in the context of his time and examines where usage of GOTO still makes sense today. http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html