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A comment on The State of C (1988).

Re:The State of C (1988) by Maken on Thursday October 02, 2014 @05:08PM (#8403108)
> C also provides a goto statement, but it's infrequently used.

Whoever wrote this was a bit naïve.

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Re:The State of C (1988) by dragonwriter on Thursday October 02, 2014 @05:15PM (#8403148)
No, they were quite correct in context. Note that this was written in the 1980s, and the context was comparisons to contemporary versions of Fortran and BASIC, by which standard "goto" was -- and is -- infrequently used in C.
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