[TUHS] The origin of Goto considered harmful?

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Fri Dec 4 13:35:02 AEST 2020


I have gone down the rabbit hole of this and I can not thank you enough.

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:51:30PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> Last night I stumbled upon this speech by Doug McIlroy at Dijkstra's retirement banquet @ UT Austin where he tells the story of his first encounter with EWD and the origins of programming without goto.... Given that we recently had a discussion on "Goto considered harmful", you all may enjoy it. Make sure you watch the start of part 10 as well as that is where the story ends.
> 
> https://youtu.be/5OUPBwrufKA?list=PL328C7EFFC1F41674&t=326

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