Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)
Why "Go to statement considered harmful" is considered a great work ?<p>Edsger W. Dijkstra made that statement in the context of an argument with Donald Knuth. Knuth won: (<a href="http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pd...</a>)
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070927094626/http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20070927094626/http://pplab.snu.a...</a><p>This article has been the bible of many "code nazis" who have caused a lot of pain to many programmers.
Please, forgot this article.