Why wouldn't my computer science teacher let me use goto loops? [closed]

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Published on 2010-03-21T01:04:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 1:11 UTC
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GOTO still considered harmful?

There were times the code would have been so much shorter, but my high school CS teacher would never allow us to use goto loops. Is it just bad form? Is there any time that it's acceptable to use goto loops? The links2 browser uses goto loops. I'm just saying.

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