GOTO STATEMENT

GOTO Statement

GOTO Statement

The heart and core of this article is to analyze and critique the article “(A Look Back at) Go To Statement Considered Harmful” written by Edsger Dijkstra. I personally agree that the use of GOTO statement was quite harsh to be used in computer programming languages at that time. For the history of this term let us see when and why it was coined? It was popularized by Edsger Dijkstra letter GO TO Considered Harmful, published in the March 1968 Communication of the ACM (CACM), in which he criticized the excessive use of GOTO statement in programming languages ...