Daniel Silva wrote:
At any rate, FOLD must fold.
I personally think GOTO was unduly criticized by Dijkstra. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that giving up GOTO in favor of other primitives failed to solve the decades-old software crisis.
What software crisis? Knuth (among others) has demonstrated that it's possible to do structured programming in assembly language (though I have to say that not all his MIX was particularly well-structured).
The danger in GOTO is that it allows the undisciplined programmer to develop a badly-structured solution to a programming problem. A disciplined programmer will write well-structured code with whatever tools come to hand.
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