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They are not corner cases, it rely depend on what domain you work in. Currently working on "tooling" for HPC application, and use goto all the time. Any form of system programming in c will probably have lots of goto's. Error handling being the most usual. Also some algos express them self best using goto's. And of course asm, try writing anything in asm without jumps :-)

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I think I am on safe ground in saying that Dijkstra was well aware of the use of jumps in asm, but that is beside the point he was making in the body of the paper - as opposed to the point, taken from the title of the paper, that most of the argument has been about.

Well the part about asm was obviously a joke, control structures are nice to have. My point was that in many domains goto's are useful, both for solving problems, getting performance and for code clarity.

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