&gt; A religious avoidance of goto?<p>That&#x27;s my experience.<p>In school the no goto rule is exactly like your second grade teacher telling you never to start a sentence with the word &#x27;and&#x27; It&#x27;s to prevent this; And we went to the park. And I played on the swing And then we went and got ice cream. And we went home and had dinner.<p>The no goto rule is for novices to teach them not to write spaghetti code.