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Structured programming has won so thoroughly and become so pervasive that it's hard nowadays to understand the context in which Dijkstra was writing. 'Don't us
by bigbillheck 5y ago
Structured programming has won so thoroughly and become so pervasive that it's hard nowadays to understand the context in which Dijkstra was writing.
'Don't use goto' doesn't mean 'never ever use a goto under any circumstance', it means 'consider using this thing called a "while" loop instead'.
- munificent 5y ago> 'Don't use goto' doesn't mean 'never ever use a goto under any circumstance', This is simply not true. When Dijkstra said goto should be considered harmful, he literally meant that programming languages should not suppport it as a feature at all.