I'll take Knuth's ideas on goto over Dijsktra's any day, not just because Knuth has been the better thinker and writer, but also because he wrote TeX and other

I'll take Knuth's ideas on goto over Dijsktra's any day, not just because Knuth has been the better thinker and writer, but also because he wrote TeX and other software. Remember when structured programming was going to fix everything? Well, neither do I, but it still had a ton of momentum as a panacea when I was learning to program. Grown-ups with access to real computers would sniff at our BASIC machines and quote Djikstra at us.