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 stat… - Edsger W. Dijkstra

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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.