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Quote #505 "Where Time Or Intelligence Are Lacking, A Goto May Do The Job.
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"Where time or intelligence are lacking, a goto may do the job."
-- M.E. Hopkins, "A Case for the GOTO," 1972.
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BASIC programmers GOTO it.
Quote #36 "FORTRAN's DO statement is far scarier than GOTO ever was - nothing can match the sheer gibbering horror of the `come from' loop if the programmer didn't document it well.
.." -- Mark Hughe...
GOTO statement considered harmful" - E. W.
Dijkstra, title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968)...
But God TOLD me to use a GOTO.
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LISP-programmers say: "Guess how many parentheses are needed to do this!
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Quote #39 From the May/June'94 IEEE Institute, an article about John Backus receiving the Draper Prize for having developed Fortra
"Another of Fortran's breakthroughs was the GOTO statement, which was a uniquely simple and understandable means of structuring and modularizing programs....