William Wulf (1939) American computer scientist
"A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, August 1972, pp. 791-97.
“The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
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e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa
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