[convolvatron]

idk how old you are, but there there was a style in the 70s where goto was the only control flow operator used in a lot of codebases, and it was absolutely horrible.

[JCattheATM]

I'm in my 40s, wasn't coding in the 70s. Horrible use of code is a different thing from removing something entirely, though. Just that almost every language removed goto as a response is kind of amazing to me.

[ebiederm]

Dijkstra actually had a much more reasonable title on the article.

It was the editor of the publication Niklaus Wirth that changed the title to goto considered harmful.

Dijkstra was arguing for procedures with a single entry point and a single exit point. So it is easier to reason about what a procedure does.