...a baseball bat, which while possible of inflicting terminal injuries isn't quite as good at it, lowering the number of deaths. The analogy still holds :-)

...a baseball bat, which while possible of inflicting terminal injuries isn't quite as good at it, lowering the number of deaths. The analogy still holds :-) edit: I mean to say literally that GOTOs certainly are useful, but are far easier to create spaghetti code with than something much safer like functions. It's a cost/benefit analysis.