Excerpted from message dated 11-13-94, Jens Bang to Vic Dura:

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JB> ML>> The logical fallacies in Prof Dijkstra's 1965 "Goto is
  > ML>> Harmful" papers live on in several generations of
  > ML>> programmers trained by computer-science profs who didn't
  > ML>> read those papers carefully enough, so accepted the
  > ML>> assertions in them.
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JB>I'm one of those new ones, and I would like to form my own opinion.
  >Therefore this question: Where can I get prof. Dijkstra's article?
  >

Jens--

    I think you really meant this one for me, so I'll answer it.

    You will find both Dijkstra papers in the book "Classics in Software
Engineering" edited by Edward Nash Yourdon, [Yourdon Press, 1979, ISBN
0-917072-14-6].  I haven't the slightest idea where you might find the
book at this late date!

    The original publication of the two Dijksra papers:  "Programming
Considered as a Human Activity" in "Proceedings of the 1965 IFIP
Congress (Amsterdam); and "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" in
"Communications of the ACM, March 1968.  As I remember, the latter is
essentially a rehash of the former, adding the assertion given in the
title; the asssertion was only implied in the original paper.

               --Murray
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