Ode to the indomitable GOTO

I think that I shall never see
A program from all GOTO's free;
One that after such ablution
Is freed of all convolution
Whose nested modules at a look
Read exactly like a book

A program saved from coder's guile
Replete with simples like DO-WHILE,
Of purest code whose modules tout
A single IN, a single OUT.

Exempt from all the sins of Sodom
And structured carefully from top-to-bottom:
Where dwells so potent a software genie
Worthy of Boehm and Jacopini?

Programs are made by fools like me --
Not even God is GOTO-free*
     -- William J Wilson

(* In His first recorded GOTO in Genesis 11:7, He said:  "Go to, let us
go down
and there confound their language that they may not understand one
another's
speech.")

Copywright by Technical Publishing Co., 1975




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