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to: Vic Dura
from: Jens Bang
date: 1994-11-13 22:25:44
subject: Re: `Goto considered harmful` (Was: Rexx)

Yo Vic!

Wednesday November 02 1994 10:26, Vic Dura wrote to Murray Lesser:

 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.  Consequently, those programmers never
 ML>> learned how and when to use a GOTO.  However, there are
 ML>> some of us, too old to have fallen for the "structured
 ML>> programming" nonsense, still alive.

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?

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