To appreciate whether callbacks are Goto and what to do about them, it is probably good to read a good perspective on Goto from back in the day: http://cs.sjsu

To appreciate whether callbacks are Goto and what to do about them, it is probably good to read a good perspective on Goto from back in the day: http://cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgrammingGoTo.pdf http://cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgrammingGoT... When skimming it, I noticed the appeal to events and the precursors to literate programming (Knuth eventually came up with literate programming a few years after this paper was written).