There is imprecision in my wording. The paper was about removing goto from high level programming languages. The context in which people were starting to view g

There is imprecision in my wording. The paper was about removing goto from high level programming languages. The context in which people were starting to view goto with suspicion was that of ~1968, at which point I believe the baseline assumption was that goto was a branch to anywhere as that's what assembly gives you. However it was before my time and I'm inferring from partial information. I think the distinction between goto as rendered in C and goto as rendered in machine code is significant. It's the same argument in favour of structured programming in both cases. The gap between structured programming and local goto within a function is smaller than in the assembly case.