Flewellyn wrote:TomBrend wrote:
But as any computer engineer could tell you, GOTO CONSIDERED HARMFUL is considered harmful.
Yes, but as any computer scientist could tell you, "Considered Harmful" is considered silly.
Having heavily used languages where the goto is key, I would posit that it is far to sweeping a generalization. Djikstra himself was arguing against the inclusion of a goto statement in new high-level languages, not against its use in lower-level languages.