Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful

1968/03/01 by Edsger W. Dijkstra · 1,024 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/362929.362947

published in Communications of the ACM 11(3), 147-148 (Association for Computing Machinery)

openalex publication_date 1968/03/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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