me: goto isn't bad to use in all cases, you just have to be careful with it
me, shortly thereafter: turns out my insurance doesn't cover pitchfork wounds

@typhlosion
me: everything is goto when you disassemble the bytecode deep enough.

@Fuego @typhlosion
Me, a computer scientist: GOTO is a terrible linguistic concept and any high-level language should be embarrassed by its inclusion.
Me, a programmer: break, continue, next, and last are all GOTO by other names, and nobody complains about them. Sometimes you want to short-circuit other parts of your code.
Me, a hacker: // LOL make this a function later my life is pain this should live in its own package worms in my brain get them out.

@Fuego @literorrery me, cosmic brain: [quietly writes code with self-modifying jumps]

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