"The goto statement is one of the most infamous and troublesome features of old, archaic languages like Fortran."<p>"It allowed programmers to quickly create spaghetti code that was confusing and impossible to understand"<p>C still supports goto, and it does have its place. It can actually make code more readable.<p>But Linus Torvalds, Robert Love, Rik van Riel and many others make the point much better than I ever can. Argue with them if you like:<p><a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131" rel="nofollow">http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131</a>
All those different languages might support the goto statement, but what programmer in his right mind would dare to use it? <a href="http://xkcd.com/292/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/292/</a>