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Subject: Re: Re^2: Oh noooooo!!
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Date: 14 Sep 89 00:56:54 GMT
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Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
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In article <556@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk> raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (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'.
>

Sorry, but that is not true.  The article appears on page 147 of the
March 1968 issue of the CACM.  The EXACT title is (I have the issue before
me as I write):

       "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"

Note that it is the GO TO STATEMENT that is considered harmful.  The thrust
of the article was (again I quote):

     "More recently I discovered why the use of the GO TO statement statement
     has such disastrous effects, 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)."

   Marv Rubinstein