GOTO

Don't most constructs evaluate into GOTO statements in assembly anyway? I don't understand all the GOTO hate, everyone implicitly uses it. I know it looks ugly in higher level code that has cleaner alternatives, but why all the self-righteousness against it?

The interesting thing about Dijkstra is how selectively people choose to apply his lessons. His arguments against break/continue stem from the same reasoning behind his argument against GOTO, but the latter is regarded as "Ivory Tower Bullshit", while the latter is so ingrained the minds of dullards as to be a reflex