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Knuth: "When I got to step 4, I paused and pretended to be at a loss; I said, “Hmmm. Is it legal to use the words ‘go to’ in this place?” Edsger said, “I saw it
by jnwatson 5y ago
Knuth: "When I got to step 4, I paused and pretended to be at a loss; I said, “Hmmm. Is it legal to use the words ‘go to’ in this place?” Edsger said, “I saw it coming.”"
What an excellent troll! One of Dijkstra's more well-known papers is "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" [1].
1. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...