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Goto statements aren't always (or even usually) evil either. Sometimes I get the feeling no one ever really read past the headline of that paper.

Sure, you shouldn't use them unless you really have to, but "really have to" is a line that is difficult to discern. Dijkstra himself noted, "The exercise to translate an arbitrary flow diagram more or less mechanically into a jump-less one, however, is not to be recommended. Then the resulting flow diagram cannot be expected to be more transparent than the original one."