It's amusing to note that Dijkstra's most famous quote is something he never wrote. Dijkstra submitted a letter to the editor of the Communications of the Asso

It's amusing to note that Dijkstra's most famous quote is something he never wrote. Dijkstra submitted a letter to the editor of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) that he titled "A Case Against the Goto Statement". Niklaus Wirth was editor of CACM at the time, and he changed the title to the infamous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful Here's the story in Dijkstra's own hand (scroll to the last page of the PDF): http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF This is a good reminder that when you read an article with a clickbaity title, don't blame the author, blame the editor.