[jayd16]

"Considered harmful" is a meme they're referencing but yeah...its pretty stale at this point.

[Agingcoder]

To me it’s not a meme, it’s a reference to a very famous letter by dijkstra regarding goto statements.

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

[bmn__]

You want to object because of a misunderstanding. The usage of the word meme here is correct in its original sense. The word cliche would also work.

[jayd16]

That is the meme.

[tialaramex]

Not really "goto statements" so much as the go-to arbitrary control flow semantic aka jump.

C's goto is a housecat to the full blown jump's tiger. No doubt an angry housecat is a nuisance but the tiger is much more dangerous.

C goto won't let you jump straight into the middle of unrelated code, for example, but the jump instruction has no such limit and neither did the feature Dijkstra was discussing.