For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of go to statements in the programs they produce. More recently I discovered why the use of the go to statement has such disastrous effects, and I became convinced that the go to statement should be abolished from all "higher level" programming languages (i.e. everything except, perhaps, plain machine code). At that time I did not attach too much importance to this discovery; I now submit my considerations for publication because in very recent discussions in which the subject turned up, I have been urged to do so.
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Dijkstra, E. W. (2002). Go to Statement Considered Harmful. In Software Pioneers (pp. 351–355). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59412-0_21
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