Harmful GOTOs, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths are the Root of all Evil

Harmful GOTOs, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths are the Root of all Evil What follows is the presentation I gave in the inaugural meeting of Papers We Love Madrid. The subject of the talk was the paper Structured Programming with Go To Statements by Donald Knuth. The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality” - Alan Kay. The question is whether we should ban it [GOTO], or educate against it. –– Donald Knuth In this article I would like to talk about my