Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Ulrich Hobelmann]

alex goldman wrote:
> Daniel Silva wrote:
> 
> 
>>At any rate, FOLD must fold.
> 
> 
> I personally think GOTO was unduly criticized by Dijkstra. With the benefit
> of hindsight, we can see that giving up GOTO in favor of other primitives
> failed to solve the decades-old software crisis.

The fault of goto in imperative languages is that it has no 
arguments, thus creating spaghetti of gotos and assignments.

Continuations rule!