In the web-source of hius adventure-game http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/programs/advent.w.gz Knuth comments (resp. warns the reader):
"By the way, if you don't like |goto| statements, don't read this. (And don't read any other programs that simulate multistate systems.)" Don Knuth, September 1998 This may be dated. But while I cannot judge the reasoning, I did not want to miss to post it here. At least for its subtle humor. Christof