> In the 80s there was an April Fools issue of "Communications of the ACM" positing a "COME FROM" statement (not too long after "GOTO Considered Harmful"): 197

> In the 80s there was an April Fools issue of "Communications of the ACM" positing a "COME FROM" statement (not too long after "GOTO Considered Harmful"): 1978 actually: http://www.modell.com/Magery/SPharmful.html http://www.modell.com/Magery/SPharmful.html But that was a followup from a much older paper, from 1973: https://web.archive.org/web/20180716171336/http://www.fortran.com/fortran/come_from.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180716171336/http://www.fortra... And to make you feel really old, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" dates back to 1968. The context was the debate on structured programming which mostly happened in the 60s and early 70s (though it has flareups unending, they tend to be limited in scope).