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By the way, who was it that said that goto is evil?

Edsger W. Dijkstra in the classic paper "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" published in March 1968. This short paper is widely considered the seminal work which began the Structured Programming movement. (what do they teach in schools these days? :-) )

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Re^5: Go to?
by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 11, 2006 at 12:07 UTC

    Which is to say, Dijkstra said it was worse than his contemporaries thought it was at the time. He's also said since then that he thinks it's better than today's zero-tolerance. There are places where goto really is a good way to solve something.

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