Talk: Goto

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Restored Pascal as language with goto. See [1](1981) and ISO7185, section 6.8.2.4(PDF)(1990) JamesDay 14:26, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The page claimed that Dijkstra's argument in Considered Harmful was narrowly about "autoindexed variables." After reviewing the article, I disagree with both the description of the argument and the limitation. Dijkstra was unequivocal that unrestricted GOTO should be abolished generally. In support of this general claim, he cited the difficulty of summarizing a program's progress toward its result (in order to analyze the program) when it progresses arbitrarily. There is no mention in the letter of auto-anything. -- MW