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.


Dijkstra (1968) "A Case against the GO TO Statement"

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Edsger W. Dijkstra Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...