Regarding flowcharting, I find it's all but impossible for me to understand the nature of any complex decision-making process without drawing some kind of diagr

Regarding flowcharting, I find it's all but impossible for me to understand the nature of any complex decision-making process without drawing some kind of diagram. It's actually more difficult to diagram a process than it is to sit down and implement it in program code, but also the very act of diagramming the process exposes flaws in my understanding which would be much more expensive to fix were I to expose them during the debugging process. Regarding gotos, I think a more general statement would be "excessive reliance on one type of control structure is to be considered harmful." Avoid dogmatic preoccupation with general statements about avoiding language features.