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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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