Goto Quotes

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. (Ken Thompson)
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered. View quote
Larry Wall
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. View quote
Larry Wall
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. View quote
Larry Wall
Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell. View quote
Erik Naggum
And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto. View quote
Larry Wall
Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable. View quote
Larry Wall
If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that... View quote
Larry Wall
Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL. View quote
Larry Wall
The revolution in views of programming started by Dijkstra's iconoclasm led to a movement known as structured programming, which advocated a systematic, rational approach to program construction. Structured programming is the basis for all that has been done since in programming methodology, including object-oriented programming. As the first book on the topic [Structured Programming by Dijkstra, Ole-Johan Dahl, and Tony Hoare] shows, structured programming is about much more than control structures and the goto. Its principal message is that programming should be considered a scientific discipline based on mathematical rigor. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra