>Programming languages should be minimalistic If we follow this to its extreme, everyone should switch to Brainfuck. The complexity contributed by a feature i

>Programming languages should be minimalistic If we follow this to its extreme, everyone should switch to Brainfuck. The complexity contributed by a feature is partly a function of how unintuitive it is. "Goto" is so intuitive that it's essentially free, in the sense that it doesn't really increase the cognitive burden of the language. (If misused, it can greatly increase the cognitive burden of individual programs in the language, of course.)