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A case against the GOTO

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Abstract:
Scan of william Wulf's article titled "A Case Against the GOTO." The article was published in "SIGPLAN Notices" in 1972 and emphasized the continuing argument against spaghetti code and in favor of structured programming. Structured programming became an important issue in software engineering in the 1970s. See also item "Go To statement considered harmful."

Citation

"A case against the GOTO" (1972). Brown CS Digital Archive. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1078417/

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