Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmat…

Edsger Dijkstra
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Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about the go to statement. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline! ✨ Structured Programming with go to Statements. Donald E. Knuth, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 6, Issue 4, December 1974.
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