The author would have done much better if, rather than poking sticks at those who wish to forbid gotos, and posting vague and generic quotes about memes and cargo-cults, they had provided several examples of code wherein the use of gotos was a decided improvement, in terms of speed and clarity, over the best that could be done without it. Anyone who has read code that has been twisted out of shape, or entagled with unecessary "done" flags and the like, and who can be improved with such remonstrations, will recognize the virtue in this point of view.