Programming with(out) the GOTO

  • Authors:
  • B. M. Leavenworth

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM '72 Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

A brief history of the goto controversy (retention or deletion of the goto statement) is presented. After considering some of the theoretical and practical aspects of the problem, a summary of arguments both for and against the goto is given.