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CuriousCosmic
on April 23, 2024
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What's the paper title? "goto considered harmful considered harmful" I think?
Even in modern C programming goto is still pulling its weight for handling unrolling and cleanups.
shiroiushi
on April 23, 2024
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The paper was written by Dijkstra, and even he doesn't like how it's become some kind of mindless mantra, instead of a warning against spaghetti code which it was. He never meant that you should never, ever use GOTO.
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Even in modern C programming goto is still pulling its weight for handling unrolling and cleanups.