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A case for the GOTO

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 787 - 790

Year of Publication: 1972

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Martin E. Hopkins

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In recent years there has been much controversy over the use of the goto statement. This paper, while acknowledging that goto has been used too often, presents the case for its retention in current and future programming languages.

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