Excerpted from message dated 10-23-94, Jonathan Markevich to Peter
Hansen:

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JM>    Are there still some GOTO-lovers?  I thought they all died off!
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   The logical fallacies in Prof Dijkstra's 1965 "Goto is Harmful"
papers live on in several generations of programmers trained by
computer-science profs who didn't read those papers carefully enough, so
accepted the assertions in them.  Consequently, those programmers never
learned how and when to use a GOTO.  However, there are some of us, too
old to have fallen for the "structured programming" nonsense, still
alive.

    My only complaint with REXX is that it doesn't have a real GOTO.
(SIGNAL is not an equivalent, and you are in big trouble if you use
SIGNAL indiscriminately thinking that it is.)  However, Mike Cowlishaw
explained very carefully, in his book, why REXX cannot have a GOTO, so
we just have to live with it.  But the lack of a real GOTO does lead to
what would otherwise be unnecessary coding complications, at times.

               --Murray
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