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A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (
by schot 6y ago
A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (Niklaus Wirth) that changed it[0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
- bregma 6y agoIn 2021 the note would probably have been headlined "Academics hate programmers who use this one cool trick!!"