The History, Controversy, and Evolution of the Goto statement

This talk will touch on how standard usage patterns for the Goto statement became embodied in higher level control structures, ways in which higher level control structures can often express the intent of the programmer more clearly than lower level control structures, some of the controversy surrounding the Goto statement, common reasons for and ways of using Goto, and common ways of implementing arbitrary control structures in languages that do not contain the Goto statement. The latest version of this handout is available fro