JOURNAL ARTICLE

Class-Free Object-Oriented Programming

Abstract

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.

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Goto Statement (logic) Arrow Field (mathematics) Dijkstra's algorithm

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Logic, programming, and type systems
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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