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I’d Consider That Harmful, Too

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I’d Consider That Harmful, Too

One of the seminal papers in computer science is Edsger Dijkstra’s 1968 paper GOTO Considered Harmful. 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.

By Jeff Atwood ·
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