Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the go to statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

E. W. Dijkstra, cited by Donald E. Knuth in Structured Programming with go to Statements, ACM Computing Surveys, 6 (4), 1974