'Goto considered harmful' really brings nothing new to the table. It just states that gotos are hard to reason about. Well yes, that's true. Computer programs a

'Goto considered harmful' really brings nothing new to the table. It just states that gotos are hard to reason about. Well yes, that's true. Computer programs are hard to reason about as a baseline. Everyone knew that goto was hard to reason about before he wrote about it, but for some reason his letter became a reference for people who wanted to abolish GOTO from their codebases. > How was that outside of his field, which was about thinking logically about programming? Language design falls under human-machine interfaces, and while basically everyone in that era dabbled in that field, it wasn't really his forte.