why "Using Goto" is bad programming ?

Question

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Why is goto poor practise?
GOTO still considered harmful?

Hi,

I have read in many book that using goto is bad programming practice, why is it so?

thanks Yogesh

Answer 1

1 reason is that it produces spaghetti code that is hard to follow.

Answer 2

Goto considered harmful

Answer 3

using goto is not bad as long as you know for what purpose you are using. use judiciously.

Answer 4

Original article by Edsger Dijkstra: http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF

Answer 5

Dijkstra and Wirth, proponents of structured programming, have critisized the use of goto, and people started to think that goto is plain evil, although it isn't always a case. There are situations when use of goto results in cleaner code, like in error handling.