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From: knighten@pinocchio (Bob Knighten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Oh noooooo!!
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Date: 13 Sep 89 17:26:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Raphael Mankin)

In article <556@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk>, raph@tigger (Raphael Mankin) writes:
>
>Before most readers of this new group were born, Dijkstra wrote an
>article called Uncontrolled use of Goto Considered Harmful. It was
>		^^^^^^
>not called 'Goto considered Harmful'.
>

Well, actually Dijkstra wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Communications of
the ACM (CACM, vol. 11, no. 3 (March 1968) pp. 147-148) which has the heading
"Go To Statement Considered Harmful".  And the second sentence of that letter
contains the statement ". . . and I have become convinced that the go to
statement should be abolished from all ``higher level'' programming languages 
(i.e. everything except, perhaps, plain machine code)."

That raised the adrenalin level!
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