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[History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968). (dl.acm.org)
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In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don't have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement, because they (mindlessly) copied it from C, which (mindlessly) copied it from Assembly, but more modern languages like Swift and Kotlin don't even have a goto statement anymore.

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[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 21 points 10 months ago (17 children)

TIL that C# and Java have a goto statement.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 10 months ago (10 children)
[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, await is a bit more like comefrom, and it's been around for a few releases now.

[–] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

async/await was introduced in version 4.5, released 2012. More than a few releases at this point!

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