Very clear answer. It resulted in a major improvement in programming quality, since it was easier to debug and maintain. I recall that either Dijkstra or someone else illustrated the point by building some code to perform a simple task but using COME FROM instead of GOTO. The code was incredibly difficult to understand and drove the point home.
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Very clear answer. It resulted in a major improvement in programming quality, since it was easier to debug and maintain. I recall that either Dijkstra or someone else illustrated the point by building some code to perform a simple task but using COME FROM instead of GOTO. The code was incredibly difficult to understand and drove the point home.