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To me it’s not a meme, it’s a reference to a very famous letter by dijkstra regarding goto statements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https:
by Agingcoder 1y ago
To me it’s not a meme, it’s a reference to a very famous letter by dijkstra regarding goto statements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
- tialaramex 1y agoNot really "goto statements" so much as the go-to arbitrary control flow semantic aka jump. C's goto is a housecat to the full blown jump's tiger. No doubt an angry housecat is a nuisance but the tiger is much more dangerous. C goto won't let you jump straight into the middle of unrelated code, for example, but the jump instruction has no such limit and neither did the feature Dijkstra was discussing.
- jayd16 1y agoThat is the meme.
- bmn__ 1y agoYou want to object because of a misunderstanding. The usage of the word meme here is correct in its original sense. The word cliche would also work.