> most people are not disciplined Abstracting from programming languages alone, this is the reason why good software design makes doing the wrong thing either

> most people are not disciplined Abstracting from programming languages alone, this is the reason why good software design makes doing the wrong thing either impossible, or at least very hard, while making the right use very easy. I am still learning to do that better. Sometimes I am able to foresee the misuse of a feature and make it impossible, but not always - and it's harder to correct the error once it proliferates. However, the article puts the quote (though it had nothing to do with GOTO) in context - and at the time no dialect of BASIC that was used by millions of users had support for functions (other than mathematical expressions declared with DEF FN), or procedures - so you couldn't jump out of scope... because there was only one scope.