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• GOTO statement considered harmful" The unrestricted use of a GOTO statement is considered to be harmful because it hampers program understandability.
  Consequently, a programmer should justify every use of a GOTO statement....
• considered harmful adj. [very common] Edsger W.
  Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 "Communications of the ACM", "Goto Statement Considered Harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars (text at http...
• considered harmful: adj. Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 "Communications of the ACM
  Goto Statement Considered Harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars....
• PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
  -- E. W. Dijkstra...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- E. W. Dijkstra...
• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
  --E. W. Dijkstra...
• while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery
  we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces....