[smaudet]

I think using C as your language with which to judge language constructs is hardly fair - one of its main strengths has been as a fairly stable, unchanging code-to-compiler contract, i.e. little to none syntax change or improvements.

So no offense, but I would revisit the wider world of language constructs before claiming that switch statements are "all bad". There are plenty of bad languages or languages with poor implementations of syntax, that do not make the fundamental language construct bad.