"GOTO is an easy target due to its cultural notoriety (regardless of how it actually looked in the past), but the overarching argument is indeed against dogma."

"GOTO is an easy target due to its cultural notoriety (regardless of how it actually looked in the past), but the overarching argument is indeed against dogma." I agree. But I think it's worth pointing out that if we're going to use reluctance to use goto as an example of dogma, it strengthens the anti-dogma argument even more to point out that the dogma isn't even correct on its own terms; the goto that the dogma is rejecting historically isn't the same goto that exists today. Under many dogmas lies a kernel of truth. That kernel can be worth extracting, and is often quite enlightening, unlike the dogma.