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Re:Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf] by Blammar on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:12PM (#32297919)
? That was Edsger Dijkstra's article, if I recall correctly.

The standard joke is "Europeans refer to him by reference, as Nicklaus Wirth, and Americans - by value, as Nickel's Worth."

Re:Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf] by pdw on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:08PM (#32298347)
It was Dijkstra's article, but he submitted it with the title "A case against the Go To statement". Wirth was the journal editor and he choose to rename it to "Go To statement considered harmful".

Knuth ties into this because he published a response "Structured Programming with go to Statements", examining many situations where goto statements are hard to avoid in the standard structured programming paradigm.

Re:Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf] by Jtsummers on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:09PM (#32298358)
GGP had originally referred to the author of the article as Knuth, GP (and I) both replied correcting that. GGP comment has since been edited.
Re:Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf] by sedatk on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:19PM (#32298450)
Yes, I'd meant Dijkstra where I said Knuth despite that Knuth might still be relevant. I got this right in the book, no worries. :)
Re:Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf] by sedatk on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:07PM (#32298342)
Yes my bad. Edited, thanks!