Scott Robert Ladd gives the best reply in this thread. "GOTO considered harmful" was written in a time when you'd walk to school uphill, both ways. GOTO would l

Scott Robert Ladd gives the best reply in this thread. "GOTO considered harmful" was written in a time when you'd walk to school uphill, both ways. GOTO would let you jump anywhere, not just some label within a procedure. Procedures themselves having been invented the previous winter. Many programmers were still doing things the "old fashioned way" and academics like Dijkstra couldn't help but hold their nose looking at such code.