billybong@lemmynsfw.comtoProgramming@programming.dev•[History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968).
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6 months agoSingle exit point is an assembly rule that was mindlessly ported to C/C++. It doesn’t make sense in a structured language.
It began years ago. That’s why things are so bad in Greece, most of the people able to leave have done already in search of a better life and leaving behind a shortage of skilled labour and labour in general. Meanwhile non economically active people, mostly children and retired still need to be supported somehow and unsurprisingly the public finances are in a poor state.