note 109913 deleted from control-structures.goto by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:29:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 109913 deleted from control-structures.goto by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: e70838 at gmail dot com
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Dijkstra was frequently wrong, especially when he made grand sweeping statements.
GOTO is a good example, 'GOTO considered harmful' is practically biblical law amongst many
programmers, but it's worth remembering that he made that statement in the context of an
argument with Donald Knuth. Knuth won:
(http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf)