Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:37:06 01/27/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 11:20:57, Hasnain Mujtaba wrote: >>But there also exists a flood of responses to this assessing >> >>``"Goto Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful''! > >Yes, including the one titled "Dijkstra Considered Harmful" ! > >Actually, I read somewhere that it was Tony Hoare (acting as Editor of ACM) who >gave Dr. Dijkstra's famous article that catchy title. Dr. Dijkstra himself had >nothing to do with the title, but still had to put up with the ensuing flood of >"X considered harmful" titled articles, most of which were, of course, targeted >against views that he espoused in this or later papers. > >>The most well-known of these responses being written by >>Donald E. Knuth. > >I haven't read Knuth's response. Do you know where/when it was published? I >don't want to miss this one. Knuth, Donald. "Structured Programming with go to Statements," 1974, in (Yourdon 1979), pp. 259-321. This long paper isn't entirely about gotos, but it includes a horde of examples of code that's made more efficient by eliminating gotos and another horde of examples of code that's made more efficient by adding them. See also: http://www.construx.com/stevemcc/ccgoto.htm
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