A paper in which Knuth argues that well thought out, rational, controlled use of goto is not entirely harmful.
- http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf
- Computing Surveys, Vol 6, No 4, December 1974
He does also say that uncontrolled and thoughtless use of GoTo is probably a BadThing.
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