I wish I had a link, but I recall reading that Dijkstra said the backlash against goto's was overblown. You hear the same kind of dogma repeated about globals,

I wish I had a link, but I recall reading that Dijkstra said the backlash against goto's was overblown. You hear the same kind of dogma repeated about globals, multiple points of return, and others. It's not that these constructs should never be used, it's that they should be used judiciously.