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by adrianratnapala
3550 days ago
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If the bad kinds of `goto` aren't even allowed by compilers any more, then there is precious little to be gained by teaching youngesters that gotos are bad. But we do teach them that. As a result I recently had to review changes made by a (very capable) junior colleague who failed to actually implement the desired feature, but did get so upset by the goto-based error handling that he replaced it with incorrect exception-based code. |
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When teaching a language that support bad gotos, or compilers. Otherwise, you can count a lot of people (including me) out of that undefined "we" pronoun.
There's little point in teaching newbies about goto at all. The few modern implementations are for experts, because it can still lead to some bad code, just not the kind of "bad" Dijkstra was talking about. Yet there's a group of people that will evangelize about any subject you can think about, normally people with very shallow knowledge on the subject.