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Not sure what the "considered harmful" implies here. It's clear what Djikstra meant, and it's not about removing goto altogether. Goto is still used as a best practice in many situations (e.g. error cleanup in the Linux kernel), and is very useful in other domains too (e.g. generated code for parsing, state machines, etc).

As for the vulnerability, while it is real, it's not related to the language.

And not even sure what "I’m staying away from any language with vulnerabilities like these" even means. As if other languages/compilers/etc, even established ones like C/Clang-GCC, Java, Javascript, etc don't have any?





Yeah, I know of the paper, I even referenced it in my comment :-)




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