Hopefully you've heard of the famous letter by Edsger Dykstra, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful." This was one of the most influential letters ever written in Computer Science, published in Communications of the ACM in March, 1968. This letter effectively defined structured programming for generations of coders. It has been taken as gospel and taught in so many programming classes that most developers take it for granted. The goto statement is just too low-level for modern programming.
