Back in 1968, Edsger Dijkstra published his well-known "go to statement considered harmful" letter advocating the abolition of the GOTO statement from high-level programming languages: At the time, GOTO was well-regarded and widely-used, as evidence by the controversy surrounding Dijkstra's letter and the length of time it took languages supporting GOTO, or its use in languages that sill support it, to decline.
Hendrik WinkelmannJan C. DagefördeHerbert Kuchen