[History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968).

In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don’t have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement,...