[History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968). - eviltoast

In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don’t have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement, because they (mindlessly) copied it from C, which (mindlessly) copied it from Assembly, but more modern languages like Swift and Kotlin don’t even have a goto statement anymore.

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    6 months ago

    Please don’t link to medium articles. That page is terrible to visit.

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        6 months ago

        I’m running exactly the same and it doesn’t look fine on my end.