Go to statement considered harmful

The work

AuthorsEdsger W. Dijkstra
Typearticle
Year1968
Citekeydijkstra1968goto

Where it appeared

Published inCommunications of the ACM
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume11
Issue3
Pages147--148

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/362929.362947
OpenAlexW1994718921

Settled

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Cite it as

@article{dijkstra1968goto,
  title        = {Go to statement considered harmful},
  author       = {Edsger W. Dijkstra},
  year         = {1968},
  journal      = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume       = {11},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {147--148},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi          = {10.1145/362929.362947},
}

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