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I'm in my 40s, wasn't coding in the 70s. Horrible use of code is a different thing from removing something entirely, though. Just that almost every language re

I'm in my 40s, wasn't coding in the 70s. Horrible use of code is a different thing from removing something entirely, though. Just that almost every language removed goto as a response is kind of amazing to me.

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ebiederm 5mo ago
Dijkstra actually had a much more reasonable title on the article. It was the editor of the publication Niklaus Wirth that changed the title to goto considered harmful. Dijkstra was arguing for procedures with a single entry point and a single exit point. So it is easier to reason about what a procedure does.
- rramadass 5mo ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667852
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