A paper in which Knuth argues that well thought out, rational, controlled use of '''goto''' is not entirely harmful.
* http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf
* Computing Surveys, Vol 6, No 4, December 1974

He does also say that uncontrolled and thoughtless use of GoTo is probably a BadThing.

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