I apologize if I wasn't clear, I didn't mean to say that continue/throw are similar to modern gotos. Renamed gotos such as continue, break, and throw address the primary drawbacks of raw gotos. Unrelatedly, the gotos that one is likely to encounter in a modern-ish language like C or Common Lisp don't have all of those drawbacks anyways. My purpose was not to draw a comparison, merely to add some additional context for Dijkstra's original rants that may explain why the hard-line stance he took at the time makes a little less sense today.