[Retra]

Theorem: "X is sometimes the right tool for the job" is true for all X.

Now could we maybe explain what jobs we're talking about and why it's the right tool for them?

[kazinator]

Goto is absolutely the right tool for: "the instruction pointer finds itself here, and at this critical juncture in the algorithm, one would rather prefer that it were over there, for want of correctness, if not beauty."

[trentnelson]

That is an excellent quote.

(Where's it from? Google-fu yielded nothing.)

[WalterBright]

One job is when auto-generating source code. It's much, much easier to generate a graph as a collection of blocks connected by various goto's and if statements.

This does not adversely affect modern optimizers - they'll figure out the loops from the goto graph. At least the D compiler does.