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by veddox 3930 days ago
47 years after Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the Structured Programming Wars flare up again on Hacker News :D

Neat hack, though.

[1] http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T...

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Someone wrote an implementation of COMEFROM (a joke response to the Dijkstra article) along with GOTO in Python for an April fools' day joke as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

Comefrom is a mainstream now, not a joke any more. See the phi nodes in SSA.