'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Jay West]

Ya know, I gotta disagree... and this is coming from a programmer who made 
liberal use of the GOTO statement.

I was preached to in college about not using it, but I still did. For many 
years in professional life as well. But when I got the C bug, I started 
conciously trying to keep it out of the other languages I used. I found the 
code to be prettier, more easy to follow, and easier to modify. But then, 
I've always been obsessive about modularization, most routines are just a 
few lines of code.

Not that I look down on programmers who use it, not in the least. But for 
me, I'm fairly happy it's less common nowdays.

And this is coming from someone who adored HP TSB, where GOTO's are 
extremely frequent :)

Jay West